tomcat and eclipse work together???

[wickster]

hey everyone,

i was wondering if there is a way to develop web applications in eclipse and then deploy them in tomcat using eclipse (without having to manually go into tomcat)???

-and if so, how.....

thanks

[techieMoe]

I generally export my web projects to a WAR file and just drop them in my "webapps" directory inside Tomcat. Tomcat picks them up.

[wickster]

how do you export the files as WAR?

[wickster]

i was also wondering if there is something that i have to do within tomcat after i created a new folder within the webapps folder and setup a webpage...... i have created a simple index.html page but it is not recognizing it (i have also restarted tomcat but this doesnt seem to work)...

i.e.,
-i create example folder within the webapps folder
- i than create a "hello world" index.html page inside the example folder
-i then restart tomcat and go to http://localhost:8080/example/index.html and it tells me that it doesnt exist...... any ideas??

[techieMoe]

how do you export the files as WAR?

I right click on the project at its root (very top of the tree and go to "Export". In the pop-up window I choose "WAR File" and go from there. Keep in mind though that I'm not sure if the process is exactly the same in regular Eclipse. I use IBM's commercial tool, Rational Software Architect, which has Eclipse as its core.