How to configure Tomcat 6 in Eclipse

Steps for configuring Tomcat 6 in Eclipse

• Download Eclipse and extract it into a folder. (I have downloaded Eclipse-Galileo [Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers] from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and extracted in into D:\Eclipse )

• Download Tomcat 6.0(http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi ->Core->zip) and extract it into a folder. (I have extracted it into D:\apache-tomcat-6.0.20)

• Download JDK 6 (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp -> JDK 6 Update 16 with Java EE ) and install it into C:\Program files\java\jdk1.6

• Open eclispe by double clicking eclipse.exe

• Create a workspace

• In windows->Preferences->server -> run time environment

• Click add, select the Tomcat v6, click Next

• Set the Tomcat installation directory (for me it is D:\apache-tomcat-6.0.20)

• Set the JRE by clicking Installed JREs -> Add -> Standard VM -> set the JRE home to JDK folder (path in step 3)

• Click finish

• Select the newly added JRE and click Ok

• Select the newly added JRE from the drop down of JRE and click Finish

• At the top right corner of eclipse there is a button 'Open perspective'. Select Java EE perspective.

• If you can't see 'Server' tab at the bottom, select Windows->show view -> server

• In the server tab at the bottom, Right click -> New Server -> Select the Tomcat v6 and click Finish

• If you want to run the tomcat manually from command prompt then set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to jdk path ie the path in step 3