Tomcat not shown on the Eclipse

Question

I'm trying to install tomcat sysdeo plugin for Eclipse, but I ran into some problems before I even got to the setting/configuration part of the plugin.

When I run my Eclipse, under Preferences, I do not see tomcat section. Besides downloading the tomcat, I know I'm missing some steps here to show it on the Eclipse.

Does anyone know what I'm missing here? I just want to see tomcat under Preferences so that I can change or set configuration stuffs via Eclipse.

Thanks!!!

Answer 1

What version of eclipse are you using here ?

If this is eclipse3.4 or 3.5Mx, I recommend to download tomcatPluginV321.zip and uncompressed it in your [eclipse]^(*)\dropins\ directory (dropins, not plugins: since the p2 update system, do not put external plugins into the plugins directories -- like this tutorial suggests --, always dropins)

^(*) [eclipse] being your installation directory for eclipse, containing eclipse.exe.

You should then have:

[eclipse]\dropins\com.sysdeo.eclipse.tomcat_3.2.1\...

Relaunch (even without the -clean option), and there you should have it: tomcat menu on the main menu bar.

I just did it, and "it just works"^TM

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Answer 2

Alright. Found out that something was wrong with my Eclipse.

I had to download a fresh version of Eclipse and install the plugin again.

Everything worked fine after.

Thanks for help :)

Answer 3

After installing the plugin, you should restart eclipse with the -clean parameter. Maybe not doing that caused your install to be incomplete.