Reputation:
I'm developing on a Ubuntu 8.04 machine using Eclipse Ganymede. I installed Tomcat 5.5 using sudo apt-get install tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin
and using an Ant script I deploy my WAR file by copying it to $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
.
I then created an Eclipse project and I have it output compiled source in a similar but separate directory structure under $PROJECT_ROOT/target/
. I still deploy the WAR file by right clicking on the build.xml
and choosing my deploy-war
task.
As Tomcat is running as a deamon, automatically started up on booting, I'm not instructing it when to start or exit.
My problems with this setup are:
tomcat55
user and I have a different login and no access to Stdout
of tomcat55
.Stdout
at the moment, which I find pretty nice during development. But it's not nice when I can't see it. :-)Server
tab and no Run configurations
. This makes it impossible for me to use the Debug mode
of Eclipse, which otherwise is quite convenient.What do you think I should do to integrate them and in turn make my development environment much better?
Upvotes: 6
Views: 5594
Reputation: 21150
If you want to do regular debugging and relaunching of Tomcat apps, you might want to take a look at MyEclipse - it can make things a lot easier.
Upvotes: -1
Reputation: 13058
I'd say forget the pre-packaged Tomcat. Grab the apache-tomcat-x.y.z.zip from the site, unzip it somewhere in your $HOME and add a Server to your eclipse workspace, pointing to your local installation of tomcat. Of course you need the j2ee/wtp Eclipse bundle. Works fine on Windows, can't see a reason for it not working on Linux.
Edit: You may have to fiddle with server ports if you have two tomcat installs.
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 42045
I never cared about 1 and 2, so I can't really help you with them.
regarding 3: You don't need any servers under the server tab for debugging to work. Just start tomcat with these environment variables
export JPDA_ADDRESS=8000
export JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket
and configure eclipse accordingly: run - open debug dialog - select remote java app and create a new configuration.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 9155
You need eclipse to manage a copy of tomcat, then it can debug it. The clue to the problem was that you have to push deploy-war, this means the files are leaving your development environment and entering an external server. On a properly configured development environment, you only need to save your java file, it will auto-compile and already be on the local tomcat install, which might try to auto reload the web-app, and you can refresh your browser without reloading anything on the server. Look up some more tomcat plugins, there are a few different ways to do this.
Upvotes: -1
Reputation: 64640
Add Tomcat to the list of Eclipse servers and run your web-app on the server. If you need more details click here.
Upvotes: 3