Luis Gómez Caballero Software Development

Tomcat is a Web server that executes Java EE applications with servlets and JSP pages. In this example we are going to see how to use it with Eclipse.

We go to https://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi and download the file 64-bit Windows zip. After that, we extract the content in a path with permission.

We go to Eclipse and open the Servers view. There we click on “Add new server…” and select Tomcat 8 and the path where we unzipped the file.

To configure the server, we double-click on the name of it in the Servers view.

It is as easy as right-click on the name of our Java EE project an click on Run As / Run on Server or Debug As / Debug on Server. This will start o restart the server and after that we will be able to access out application by opening localhost:8080/[application’s name]/[view to open].

Click derecho sobre el nombre del servidor y pulsamos en Debug o en Start.

Click derecho sobre el nombre del servidor y pulsamos en Stop.

Para añadir, hacer click derecho sobre el nombre del servidor y pulsar en Add and Remove… y después seleccionar del apartado de la izquierda las aplicaciones que queremos añadir, y pulsar en Add (o Add All). Y para eliminar es al revés: seleccionamos las aplicaciones del apartado de la derecha y pulsamos en Remove (o Remove All).