How can I add my application to Tomcat in Eclipse?

Question

I have a web app built with Maven. Most of the time, I built the application using Intellij IDEA, but now I want to import the application in Eclipse to see something in th

Answer 1

Well, with a Spring and maven project, i got it that way:

• Eclipse Version: 2019-06 (4.12.0)
• Java 1.8
• Tomcat 7

Yes, go to Project Properties >> Facets >> select Dynamic Web Module but dont apply yet!!!

Right under, it should appear a link Further Configuration Available. Click on it, otherwise one will have to edit .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component manually. Update source directory to src/main/java. (source)

Then in Facets window check Java - mine was pointing to 11 even though i don't have Java 11 installed or configured like a JRE runtime. I could only add/remove when changed to 1.8. (source). Note: That was really the problem, why don't Eclipse get this configuration automatically from the project?

Finally Eclipse creates some directories like WEB-INF and META-INF, just delete them.