Developers: Tomcat 7 and Eclipse - ndexbio/ndex-rest GitHub Wiki

Overview

Eclipse includes utilities for integration with servers.

First, ensure that the Servers tab is displayed in the workbench via Window, Show View, Servers

Right click in the main area of the tab and select New, Server

Select the server type Apache, Tomcat v7.0 Server

Configuring ROOT

Navigate to the wtpwebapps plugin metadata directory in your Eclipse workspace, then copy in the ROOT webapp directory from your Tomcat directory. (First backup the current ROOT)

This is currently required to enable the correct operation of the Tomcat server under Eclipse.

> cd /_path_/_to_/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps

> mv ROOT ROOT-old

> cp -R /opt/ndex/tomcat/webapps/ROOT ROOT

References

This tutorial at www.coreservelets.com proved helpful - they were one of the sites that included the non-obvious workaround step required for successful operation in which the ROOT web app is copied.

http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/tomcat-7-with-eclipse.html