Adding Tomcat Server in Intellij

Question

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Answer 1

Tomcat integration is available only in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition, while you are running the Community Edition. Here is the page that describes the difference between the editions.

Answer 2

Did you think of using maven? If you do so, you can use the "tomcat7-maven-plugin" and its goals "deploy" and "undeploy".

Here's an example pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>de.example</groupId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <artifactId>dm-p0-servlet</artifactId>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
                    <server>tomcat7-local</server>
                    <path>/miniservlet</path>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>clean-undeploy</id>
                        <phase>clean</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>undeploy</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>package-deploy</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>deploy</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>

            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.2</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>
</project>

The element <server>tomcat7-local</server> refers to the <servers> section in ~/.m2/settings.xml, where the credentials for the Tomcat server authentication are stored:

    <servers>
        <server>
            <id>tomcat7-local</id>
            <username>adminScript</username>
            <password>geheim</password>
        </server>
    </servers>

The username "adminScript" and its password are defined in <Tomcat-Home>/conf/tomcat-users.xml .