Sorry if my question seems dumb. I've started using Eclipse Ganymede 3.4 this week and having hard time publishing my projects to the web app server.
First of all you need to know this issue:
i installed my Tomcat 6.0.18 from Netbeans that i use for PHP and J2SE project. While i can start that server from either Netbeans or Eclipse, it can not start manually for some reason even though i setup my JAVA_HOME correctly pointing to jdk/bin it's saying it's a jre. it a bit weird but i can use the IDE to get going. i did some research on the net and find out that eclipse doesn't publish to tomcat.
In fact i always develop by having a local copy on other drive than C where XP is installed and publish to a server installed on C.
So where i need to find a way to publish to Tomcat under C.
It there any simple way to do that?
Please share your experience.
Thanks for reading
Ps : i know that i can use Netbeans but i'ld like to use Eclipse and use its wysiwyg
thanks!
WTP (Web Tools Platform) should get you what you need. It's a set of Eclipse plugins which includes a one to start/stop/debug Tomcat and publish to a local Tomcat installation.
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/
You can download a version of Eclipse that already includes WTP: Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers.
I admit this is not the best practice for a general case, but in my local development environment I created a separate Tomcat environment and I simply store the project itself in this Tomcat's webapps directory. This way the 'deployment' is implicit and instant.
Of course when I need to do changes in the code which cannot be incrementally added during a debug session, I have to restart the Tomcat.
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I am working on an old jsp project. I have to modify it so that I can use it to meet my needs. I was facing issue while using any newer version of tomcat or java sdk. Therefore, I am using Tomcat 5.5.7 and java SDK 1.5. I have updated java class files of this project using eclipse helios (2012). But the implementation don't show up in my project. Like when I change the database name and run the project it still wants to use the old database name. I have tried to upgrade the whole project to a new version of tomcat and java sdk but it doesn't work. Can anyone help me with this?
Steps you need to take -
Import the project into eclipse - Create a new project, import using existing source files.
You need to setup the Java Facet of "Dynamic Web Application" along with some other Facets to make this application run successfully on the tomcat container inside of eclipse.
You need to install the server tools in eclipse. Using the Java EE perspective is very helpful.
When making changes to the JDK or the server runtime, as you mentioned, you will need to update the projects build path. Right click on the root of your project and go to the build path. Change the SDK version, change the runtime version of tomcat that is included with it. You will need to create a new Java Server runtime for any other versions of Tomcat you want to add to the project.
This is a complicated issue, and there is no specific answer, as your question is very broad. I would recommend watching some tutorials on "How to setup Web application projects in Eclipse." Maybe add Java 5 or 6 to the search to get older results.
Am getting into java web development and currently web server (tomcat) is running on the same laptop I use for coding. Now, I want to install FreeBSD on other computer, then install stuff like tomcat, some db server to learn more about unix and have a more real world environment. Idea is to have my laptop for coding (it uses win7 and InteliJ as IDE) and this other computer (freeBSD on it) for server side stuff. So my question is, how do I make this happen? Is there a way to connect intelij to that computer and have intelij acces its file system where my web related stuf would be stored. That sounds like a good way to do it. Give me some advice and pointers, Thanks !
Not sure if this is what you want.
IntelliJ will allow you to remote debug an application in the tomcat server. However to have IntelliJ reload the application to tomcat requires the ultimate edition of IntelliJ.
That said you can write scripts or use Maven (Ant or Gradle) from within IntelliJ to deploy your application to Tomcat, its more clunky than the remote deploy option with ultimate.
I just installed Eclipse at home, so I can program servlets. But it seems that I don't have the new Web applciation option, and many others.
Anyone knows what's the problem ? I install it first in Program Files then on C:\. Still the same problem.
Btw, I am using Windows XP, with Eclipse Helios Service Release 2.
Did you download the version that includes WTP (Web Tools Platform). If not you will have to add the appropriate features.
Which version of Eclipse did you download? There are several different distributions (Eclipse Classic, Eclipse for Java Developers, etc.). You should make sure you downloaded the "Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers".
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/heliossr2
To program servlets you need Eclipse for Java EE developers, and DON'T forget a server like Apache Tomcat, or Glassfish, which I guess are not included with the original package of eclipse.
Personally I have manage to install Tomcat separately from Eclipse and then link it with the IDE. There are plenty of tutorials on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX8xb-suzVg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOkN5IPoJVs
I need to get a local setup of Java working so I can start coding locally and doing builds.
I know that Java is built into macs automatically. I am running version 1.6.0_22
I found an article on how to install tomcat:
Tomcat on a Mac
I got the Tomcat server running to where i can see the default Tomcat Page.
Started to dig deeper but hit a huge wall on getting to a point where i could use an IDE to get coding.
I downloaded Eclipse for the mac (because it was free and seemed to be the more popular one out there)
So where do i need to go from here to get a working environment to test code from our svn?
Any good articles that i can read. It was hard to find some (recent) documentation on how to get this working on a mac.
Which version of Eclipse did you download? I'm guessing you downloaded Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, which doesn't have the nice WTP stuff that you probably want.
You'll need a heavier flavor of Eclipse, like Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers. I'm not sure if there's a lighter (in-between) flavor that has WTP, etc., without all the Java EE stuff.
Assuming you have some sort of SVN client and know how to create a trunk on your local machine, do that, and then all you have to do from there is open the java project in that trunk within Eclipse. Once you have that open, on the Eclipse toolbar just build your code, make sure that works, and then run it in the same fashion.
am developing a simple web app using jsps and servlets for tomcat 5.5.
Currently using the Eclipse Helios and Dynamic Web Application Project.
For some reason it is a nightmare. We spent 4 hours today trying to deploy a servlet to tomcat. We kept getting errors like
"java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file"
we played around with everything trying to set the build compatibility to what tomcat had but couldn't make the stupid thing work. (Yes it is possible we're incompetent. any suggestions on what we can try looking at are apprecieated)
My friend recalls from long time ago that he used this plugin
eclipsetotale_tomcatPlugin
in order to create a "tomcat project". My question is, does sysdeo tomcat plugin add any features that aren't already available in helios?
thanks
Not sure about sysdeo, but your error seems similar to bug 116713:
If your default JRE is set to 1.4.2 and you have a Web project targetting
Tomcat 5.5 (dynamic Web module version 2.4 and Java 5.0), when you tried to run
a main program, you'll get the error (you mention).
What is your default JRE set for your project?
This scenario happens when the JVM running the code is older than the one the compiler generated code for.
Have you considered simply running Tomcat under Java 6? If that is not an option, please edit your question to include this and any other restrictions on this project.
We used to get that error often when we had Java version issues. Eclipse environment and Windows environment (java_home and path variables typically) are easy to overlook.
Also, you can use javap -v Foo in same directory as Foo.class to find out its version.
Just use the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, 206 MB edition of Eclipse. It has Tomcat and other webserver support built-in by default. Works like a charm!
Sysdeo is an old, as far as I know obsolete, plugin.