Is it possible to use tomcat 7.0.20 within eclipse indigo?

Question

While installing the new eclipse indigo IDE I\'ve tried to setup the tomcat server previously downloaded from Apache web site (tomcat 7.0.20) with no success. When I fill th

Answer 1

I think the invalid version message is a bit misleading; it just doesn't like something about the installation. Anyway, here's what worked for me, using Ubuntu 11.10, eclipse Indigo JavaEE SR2, tomcat 7.0.21.

I have a standalone tomcat installation as per the standard ubuntu tomcat7 package. I used tomcat7-instance-create to create a separate tomcat instance for eclipse:

$ tomcat7-instance-create -p 8000 -c 8003 ~/dev/eclipse/tomcat

This required a few additions to keep eclipse happy

$ cd ~/dev/eclipse/tomcat
$ ln -s /usr/share/tomcat7/lib
$ ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/policy.d/03catalina.policy conf/catalina.policy
$ ln -s /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar bin/bootstrap.jar
$ ln -s /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar bin/tomcat-juli.jar
$ tree
.
├── bin
│   ├── bootstrap.jar -> /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/bootstrap.jar
│   ├── setenv.sh
│   ├── shutdown.sh
│   ├── startup.sh
│   └── tomcat-juli.jar -> /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
├── conf
│   ├── catalina.policy -> /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/policy.d/03catalina.policy
│   ├── catalina.properties
│   ├── context.xml
│   ├── logging.properties
│   ├── server.xml
│   ├── tomcat-users.xml
│   └── web.xml
├── lib -> /usr/share/tomcat7/lib
├── logs
├── temp
├── webapps
└── work

Then just add a new runtime environment and server as normal, and it's all good!

HTH,