[fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi Daniel,

I guess it'll be easier for you to download tomcat from 
jakarta.apache.org and unzip it in your home dir. Then you'll get a 
default Tomcat installation your plug-in (which one, by the way? Sysdeo? 
WebApp? Lomboz?) will be able to use and you won't have troubles with 
filesystem permissions and TCP port numbers.

It will also be easier for you to download and install Sun JDK instead 
of using the GCJ-based JDK that cames with Fedora. Yes, the Java 
environment you get with Fedora is quite different from the one you get 
with Windows, you'll take some time to learn how to use and configure 
it. And some plug-ins may not work inside a GCJ-based Eclipse environment.

It looks you are mixing up native GCJ libraries and standard Java 
bytecodes, that'sa why I think it'll be easier to start with Sun JDK and 
a standard Tomcat download, and not using Fedora RPM packages.

Don't forget also to check your firewall settings (iptables) and SELinux 
configuration. Try "iptables -F" and "setenforce 0" as root to check if 
those are preventing you from connecting to Tomcat.


[]s, Fernando Lozano

>Hi Folks,
>
>Has anyone gotten Eclipse and Tomcat working at all?  Seems
>from google that this has not been working as far as I can tell.
>
>I started focusing on getting Tomcat to run and as far as I can
>tell, out of the box, tomcat5 fails to start.
>
>The first thing I noticed was that tomcat tries to start as a tomcat4
>user -- tomcat4 on a tomcat v5.0 release?  Heh!  There already a
>tomcat user in the /etc/password file so I changed all places where
>tomcat4 user was located.  In /etc/initd.d/tomcat and in
>/etc/tomcat5/tomcat5.conf
>
>Then I tried to start it again - nope it fails.  It breaks because apparently
>for java v1.50 which I have installed, tomcat does not even know where
>to find jta.jar file.  Sheesh - it looks like this file was not included because
>of licensing issues?  Since I had java v1.4 installed, and the jta.jar was found
>at /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-..., I simply copied it to /var/lib/tomcat5/common/lib
>directory and deleted the [jta].jar broken link.  Then I ran /etc/init.d/tomcat5 and
>now it appears to run with no errors (as far as I can tell).
>
>Now - what port is tomcat running on so that I can see if it is running!  Well, it is
>not port 80 nor port 8080 (I am running apache at 80, and there is nothing at
>8080)
>
>I cannot seem to find a tomcat listener in netstat -a so I cannot tell if tomcat is running
>successfully or not!?!?
>
>Can anyone give me any pointers as to how to locate what port tomcat might be
>running at?
>
>Thanks!
>Dan
>
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