I was starting a not-so-small Tomcat servlet development project -- to modify and extend the Blojsom blogging server for my thesis work. I was suggested that Borland JBuilder is a better tool for servlet development. I liked JBuilder when I hadn't known Eclipse. But now that I'm so used to using Eclipse, I don't want to go back.
I was misled that I need a "Tomcat plug-in" for Eclipse to develop servlets. Spent 5-6 hours trying to get the seems-popular Sysdeo Eclipse Tomcat Launcher plugin V3.2 Beta 2 to work the way JBuiilder servlet development tool worked for me. It just didn't work the way I like.
Finally I found a discussion thread on an Eclipse site that refers to the WTP Tutorials – Building and Running a Web Application article by Naci Dai which showed me how to make Eclipse work the way I like:
According to Dai, all I have to do are:
1. Get the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) from eclipse.org (which I already have)
2. Start the WTP and go to the menu Windows -> Preferences -> Server -> Installed Runtimes. Then add an Apache Tomcat to the runtimes list.
3. To create a servlet project, use the menu File -> New Project -> Web -> Dynamic Web Project.
4. Now we can use the menu File -> New -> Class to create subclasses of
5. Important: Before we can launch the servlet we have to configure the Web Module Deployment Descriptor which is the
6. To launch the servlet, click at the project name in the Project Explorer and use the menu Run -> Run As -> Run on Server.
Keywords: eclipse, java, tomcat, servlet, programming
I was misled that I need a "Tomcat plug-in" for Eclipse to develop servlets. Spent 5-6 hours trying to get the seems-popular Sysdeo Eclipse Tomcat Launcher plugin V3.2 Beta 2 to work the way JBuiilder servlet development tool worked for me. It just didn't work the way I like.
Finally I found a discussion thread on an Eclipse site that refers to the WTP Tutorials – Building and Running a Web Application article by Naci Dai which showed me how to make Eclipse work the way I like:
According to Dai, all I have to do are:
1. Get the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) from eclipse.org (which I already have)
2. Start the WTP and go to the menu Windows -> Preferences -> Server -> Installed Runtimes. Then add an Apache Tomcat to the runtimes list.
3. To create a servlet project, use the menu File -> New Project -> Web -> Dynamic Web Project.
4. Now we can use the menu File -> New -> Class to create subclasses of
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet and start developing the servlets.5. Important: Before we can launch the servlet we have to configure the Web Module Deployment Descriptor which is the
web.xml in the WEB-INF folder.6. To launch the servlet, click at the project name in the Project Explorer and use the menu Run -> Run As -> Run on Server.
Keywords: eclipse, java, tomcat, servlet, programming
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