app, you will find it by
its nice Eclipse icon).
Unlike NetBeans, Eclipse doesn't have a servlet container bundled with it, so we
have to download Tomcat separately.
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Installing Tomcat
To install Tomcat, simply download a binary distribution from http://tomcat.
apache.org and unpack it into some directory, say, C:\apache-tomcat-6.0. The
most recent version 6 should work fine, but if there are problems, version 5.5 is a
very well tested alternative.
Once Tomcat is downloaded, we need to tell Eclipse where we have put it??”but that
will be done while configuring the project.
Configuring the Project in Eclipse
Start Eclipse and close the Welcome screen.
There are different ways of creating a web application from the existing skeleton in
Eclipse. However, the one I find the simplest and most convenient is to import the
WAR file created for us by Maven.
In the menu, select File | Import..., and in the dialog that opens select WAR file, as
shown in the following screenshot, and click on Next.
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In the next dialog, click on the Browse... button next to the WAR file text field,
navigate to the t5first.war file created by Maven and select it.
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