Tomcat 6.0.2 + Eclipse 3.4.2 develop servlet

1. install Tomcat 6.0.2

2. install Eclipse 3.4.2

3. install TomcatPlugin for Eclipse

    http://www.eclipse.org/ => click "View All Plugins"

    input "Tomcat" and click "SEARCH"

    click "Sysdeo Tomcat Launcher Plugin " from the search result.

    ...

    download "tomcatPluginV321.zip" into local disk, and extract it

    copy file folder "com.sysdeo.eclipse.tomcat_3.2.1" to eclipse installed plugin directory:

     C:/Program Files/eclipse-SDK-3.4.2-win32/eclipse/plugins/

 

4. restart eclipse

    "C:/Program Files/eclipse-SDK-3.4.2-win32/eclipse/eclipse.exe " -clean

 

    You can find three tomcat icon at toolbar (start, stop, restart Tomcat)

 

5. Create Servlet project

 

    5.1 create a directory at Tomcat webapps directory

          C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 6.0/webapps/TomcatServlet

    5.2 create Tomcat project from eclipse

          Eclipse FIle => New => Others => Java => Tomcat Project

          Project Name: TomcatServlet

          Use user defined location: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 6.0/webapps/TomcatServlet

          next, next, leave others as default value.

 

   5.3 create servlet class

         new class with name "MyServlet" and superclass "MyServlet". whether it has a package name or not, it's depend on you.

         rewrite the doGet(...) function as follow:

 

    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)
    throws IOException
    {

        response.setContentType("text/html");

        PrintWriter writer;

        writer = response.getWriter();
        writer.println("Hello World!");

    }

 

6. configure tomcat servlet

    create an configure file web.xml at:C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 6.0/webapps/TomcatServlet/WEB-INF

    its content is some like:

 

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
    version="2.4">

  <display-name>Welcome to Tomcat MyServlet</display-name>
  <description>
     Welcome to Tomcat MyServlet
  </description>

  <servlet>
      <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>package.name.MyServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/MyServlet</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

<!-- this section can be redefined as

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

 

  then all http://host:port/TomcatServlet/XXX or not will come here.

-->
</web-app>

 

 

 

7. restart Tomcat

8. Verfy from a brower

    http://localhost:8080/TomcatServlet/MyServlet

 

 

-- appendix

Only one source java file located under Tomcat 6.0/webapps/TomcatServlet/WEB-INF/src/com....

and corresponding there is only one .class file located under Tomcat 6.0/webapps/TomcatServlet/WEB-INF/classes/com...