Sysdeo Eclipse Tomcat Launcher plugin

• Create a java project, its structure should be compliant with a war directory structure. Two ways to create this project :
  • create the project in eclipse workspace, then tell Tomcat that this project is a web application, to do that add the following line to your tomcat server.xml file :
    <context path="/yourProjectUrlPath"
    docbase="C:\your\project\abosolute\directory\path" />
  • when creating the project unselect 'Use project default location' and set location to a Tomcat web application directory (webapps subdirectory)
• Add Tomcat jar files (servlet.jar could be enough) to your project Build path :
  ( open project properties, select Java Build Path, select librairies panel and 'Add external JARs...')
• Start Tomcat from Tomcat menu AFTER your project is created.

JSP Debugging

We plan to make JSP debugging easier. For the moment, follow those steps :
(Since version 0.9, steps 1 to 3 are automaticaly done by Tomcat Project Wizard)

• Create a directory work in your project, in this directory create the following directory structure : /org/apache/jsp/
• Set work directory as a source folder for your project
  (open project properties, select Java Build Path, select Source panel and 'Add Existing folders...')
• Tell Tomcat to put java files resulting from jsp compilation in this directory
  ( open tomcat server.xml file and set your application context like this :
  <context path="/yourProjectUrlPath"
  docbase="C:\your\project\abosolute\directory\path or /relative/path/from/webapps"
  workDir="C:\your\project\abosolute\directory\path\work\org\apache\jsp" /> )
• Start Tomcat from Tomcat menu
• Call your JSP from a web browser
• In Eclipse select work folder in your project and 'Refresh from Local', java files generated from your JSP should be seen by Eclipse and you can set breakpoint

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