Eclipse + Tomcat - Serve webapp directly from workspace

Question

What is the ideal way to configure Tomcat to serve directly from my project\'s directory inside of my workspace? (related)

I want my static web resources

Answer 1

I do not want to come off as promoting anything, but Netbeans IDE supports all of these out of the box, no plugins necessary, it also includes a pre configured tomcat;

It supports copying static resources on save, so there is no need to rebuild your whole application:

As for any java changes, if you are in debug mode there is an Apply Code Changes button, which will rebuild and deploy your changed files (assuming no structural changes were made)

or alternatively use JRebel (for deploying changed java files) which has excellent features