Here are the steps:

  1. Make sure you've installed the Web Standard Tools (WST) and Java Standard Tools (JST) plugins
    1. TBD doc this
  2. Make sure you have a jdk 1.5 runtime configured in eclipse
    1. Window > Preferences > Java > Installed JREs
    2. Make sure it is a jdk, not a jre or tomcat can't compile jsps
    3. Make sure it is also selected as a jdk execution environment, Installed JREs > Execution Environment
  3. Show the Servers view, Window > Show View > Other > Servers
  4. Check out the preconfigured tomcat from the tools dir in svn
    1. Go to SVN Repositories > framework-dev > tools
    2. Right click apache-tomcat-xxx, check out as
    3. Check it out as a simple "Project"
    4. Edit the file conf/server.xml (this step is required for eclipse only; the ssl server would already work if you started it from the cmd line):
      1. In the ssl part, replace the "conf" part of conf/keystore and conf/truststore with the absolute path of your tomcat conf directory
    5. Once checked out, delete the project but not the contents of it (this is necessary because of some path conflict when starting tomcat)
  5. Add the Tomcat server:
    1. Right click in the Servers window and select New > Server
    2. Apache > Tomcat 5.5, Next
    3. Tomcat Installation Directory - Browse to where you checked out tomcat from svn
    4. JRE - select the 1.5 jdk
    5. Finish

Now to get projects to deploy to the tomcat whenever you build:

  1. Right click the Tomcat 5.5 server > Add and Remove Projects
  2. Select the projects you want to deploy and click Add, then Finish

Before you can actually deploy an app or run it, you will need to start the tomcat server:

  1. Right click the Tomcat 5.5 server > Start

The url for your tomcat is:

Any app you deploy will be at both of those urls under the context root of the app, e.g.:

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