Where is the “work” directory located for a Tomcat instance running in Eclipse?

Question

In Eclipse you can configure numerous servers to run inside the IDE, including Tomcat. Depending on your Tomcat configuration, at some point in the life cycle of a webapp your J

Answer 1

Go to "Servers" window -> double click on your tomcat instance -> clik "Open launch configuration" -> go to "Arguments" tab.

Look for variable definition like this:

-Dcatalina.base="/Users/dirtyaffairs/Documents/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0"