Is it possible to use tomcat 7.0.20 within eclipse indigo?

Question

While installing the new eclipse indigo IDE I\'ve tried to setup the tomcat server previously downloaded from Apache web site (tomcat 7.0.20) with no success. When I fill th

Answer 1

Following on the advice to add some symbolic links, I needed to due the following to match my synaptic tomcat7 /usr/share/tomcat7 to eclipse indigo's requirements.

Install tomcat7 using synaptic. Add a tomcat7 server using the eclipse wizard (I let eclipse download it into /home/me/tomcat7 ). Compare the folder structure of /usr/share/tomcat7 and /home/me/tomcat7. Add any symbolic links from /var/lib/tomcat7 to /usr/share/tomcat7 to match /home/tomcat7 . Copy the 'missing' jars in /home/me/tomcat7/bin and /home/me/tomcat7/lib to their respective locations in /usr/share/tomcat7 .

In short - let the wizard setup the server, then see what you can do to adulterate your synaptic configuration to match the eclipse needs ;-) Worked for me in Ubuntu 12.04 oracle java 1.7.