[fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat - where?

[Ryan McDougall]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 10:59 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >From: Andrew Overholt [mailto:overholt at redhat.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:29 AM
> >To: Daniel B. Thurman
> >Cc: Gary Benson; Fedora Java Development List (E-mail)
> >Subject: RE: [fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat - where?
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 09:48 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >> >From: fedora-devel-java-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >> >[mailto:fedora-devel-java-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Gary
> >> >Benson
> >> >Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:12 AM
> >> >To: Fedora Java Development List (E-mail)
> >> >Subject: Re: [fedora-java] Eclipse and Tomcat - where?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >> >> Hi Folks,
> >> >> 
> >> >> I finally am ready to test by application on Fedora using Eclipse
> >> >> and I am at the point where I am trying to run my web-application
> >> >> using Tomcat.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Of course, the Tomcat dialog box pops up and asks where the
> >> >> Tomcat installation directory is.... ugh....  I have NO CLUE!
> >> >> 
> >> >> On windows, Tomcat is installed by Eclipse so I dont have to
> >> >> figure this out....  but on Fedora, seems like I do.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Can someone tell me what to do?
> >> >
> >> >Well, I don't know what dialog box this is, but on Fedora the Tomcat
> >> >installation directory (CATALINA_HOME) is /usr/share/tomcat5/.
> >> >
> >> >Cheers,
> >> >Gary
> >> >
> >> 
> >> Hmmm.. ok, so I have that - but this did not help.
> >> 
> >> The specific dialog box appears when you attempt to run the
> >> web-application project (RunAs->Run on Server) and you
> >> are then to choose the application server (tomcat 4,5,5.5)
> >> and provide the tomcat installation directory otherwise
> >> you cannot run the application.  I entered the pathname of
> >> /usr/share/tomcat5 and it does not allow me to continue.
> >> I tried different tomcat versions (5.0, 5.5) and neither
> >> worked.
> >> 
> >> So- I am stuck - and cannot even get my application to run
> >> at this time.  Any ideas?
> >
> >Is it trying to launch tomcat itself?  That won't work as it's supposed
> >to run as root (or the tomcat user or whatever).
> 
> Tomcat is a java servlet application server and yet developers
> using eclipse are doing development work so why should it be a
> "root" requirement to run and/or start it? Sure beats me...
> 
> But in any case and from what I can tell, no matter what I enter into
> the "Tomcat installation directory" textbox, the eclipse program
> keeps saying that the directory provided is not a valid tomcat installation
> directory and will not allow me to continue.  I have used eclipse on windows
> for awhile and tomcat (or other server) selections runs fine - "root" or not
> and it even "installs" the server (along with Sun's version of their app server
> w/ DB support) which makes it pleasant for developers so why not follow the same
> pathway for linux-based developers? Why force configuration make us jump through
> hoops when all "we" care about is to develop applications? I *should* be able to
> choose *any* AS with Eclipse under Linux?
> 
> Anyone care to jump in and tell me how to get tomcat started under
> Eclipse's control?
> 
> Dan
> 
> >
> >Andrew
> >

Perhaps you might be better off removing the fedora versions (which as
others have mentioned is setup according to how the fedora developers
think best) and compiling tomcat from scratch (thats how you install it
in windows right?) There are probably tonnes of good tutorials which are
variations on the theme of "unzip; configure
--prefix=/whereever/you/want && make && make install", which will set up
tomcat according to the layout you expect on windows.

Personally, when Im developing tomcat on fedora, I only use eclipse for
source editing. I have one terminal open where I type: ant && ant
deploy, and when I need to restart (almost never) I can
type /sbin/service tomcat restart, which is a fedora standard way of
restarting servers. I have also used the tomcat5 manager app to deploy
at localhost:8080/manager, which is quite convenient.

Cheers,
Ryan