Hello all: We have done all of the eclipse server configuration (adding tomcat-juli.jar by using eclipse server configuration ) . and we spent two days searching in the internet and testing different version of tomcat and different pc , after that we realized that eclipse can’t deploy web application to tomcat service automatically , finally one thread of stackoverflow suggest to build the war manually by right clicking on the project and choosing Export -> war file , as you know it is not the solution . I would much appreciate if you suggest any solution
My suggestion would be to install Tomcat separately and build your WAR file with an ANT script, which will automatically deploy your War file to $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps. In $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml, make sure you have unpackWARs and autoDeploy set to "true":
<Host name="localhost"
appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true"
autoDeploy="true">
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I've got a Maven project the gives me a war file.
If I deploy this was direct to Tomcat7.0.33 it seems to work fine.
If I start tomcat from inside eclipse, then I get errors to do with looking up TLD's
i.e. JSTL tld missing and "http://www.springframework.org/security/tags cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application"
Can anyone give me a clue as to why?
It almost like the property '
< constant name="struts.devMode" value="false" />' has been set to true.
Any ideas would be great!
Thanks
Jeff Porter
Edit: The wars were the same. Checked via BeyondCompare.
If I find a solution, I will post it.
Are you using the same instance of tomcat in both cases (standalone/ eclipse)?
Are you sure are you deploying exactly the same jars set in both cases?
Check in eclipse what is deployment assembly ( Click on Web-Project -> Choose properties for the web project -> click Deployment Assembly ) for your web project, there can you see what is deployed when using eclipse)?
It is hard to say exactly what is wrong, but if you have the same tomcat instances in both cases should be a problem only in deployed jars (not all is deployed in eclipse, or in wrong version is deployed, or too much is deployed and some jars conflict tomcat jars).
I had similar problem but long time ago. As I remember there was a library version problem. This what I deployed was in conflict with some tomcat jars.
I know there are a bunch of posts on this topic, but I can't seem to figure it out. Here is my setup:
- Eclipse Indigo
- Tomcat 6
- Struts WAR file that I imported into Eclipse from http://www.manning.com/dbrown/SampleApplication.zip
I added the server to Eclipse, and added the project to the server. It runs fine, but I'd like to make some changes to the XML and java files (not the jsp files). I was under the impression that Eclipse takes care of the deployment after I save and restart the server, but I guess this isn't the case. I looked into creating an ant file to do a custom build, but I'm not really sure how to make it since I don't even know how to do a deployment "manually". How would I go about doing a manual deployment? Thanks.
A war file is usually created by exporting it from an IDE like eclipse, netbeans, etc.
While generating a war file there is 2 options,
You can include your java files with it
You can avoid java files from it.
In both the cases class files will be there which are created from java files. Class files will be able to take care of the actions of java class.
If the war file which you down loaded is not having those java files, you will not be able to use it with eclipse, where as it will work fine if you are putting it into tomcat directory for running.
For running a war file manually just put it into tomcat webapps folder and run tomcat.
Then you can access the pages using the url.
http://localhost:8080/yourprojectname/
If you want to check whether the war file contains any java files, after starting the tomcat server it will extract the war file into the same directry, where you can search for java files.
If you want to run the project from eclipse,
import it into eclipse, open index.jsp page
right click-> run as-> run on server
if you have not yet configured the server yet,select the server in the list, specify its installation path, then add projects into server in next step, finish it. then it will load your project.
Please provide little more details so that we can help you better.
manual: copy the war in the tomcat folder then start tomcat.
if you want to use eclipse you need to click redeploy war first by right clickling the deployed war in the servers tab under tomcat.
i stopped tomcat
paste myapp.war into webapps folder.
start tomcat
call in browser
http://localhost:8080/myapp/index.jsf
see 404
also tomcat does not generate log files under logs directory.
I am using eclipse to start and stop tomcat, and my tomcat 7 is an unzipped version.
to be sure that my war file runs on server, i remove same project from tomcat in eclipse servers view.
repeating question, but i think my situation is a little different, tomcat does not generate logs.
a note: i generate war file by right click in eclipse-> export war file.
thanks for any idea.
If you are launching tomcat from within Eclipse (using the webtools tomcat server adapter) you will have to make sure you have changed the settings to use the installation directory to launch instead of the default which uses a separate location for loading and deploying webapps. So if you add a war directly into the webapps folder, the server launched from Eclipse server adapter wont have that directly setup in the server.xml configuration.
So you should use the startup.bat/startup.sh in the tomcat/bin folder. If you do, you need to make sure that you don't just copy the .war file into the webapps, but rather unzip the war file into a directory folder called "myapp"
I have developed an web application using HTML, Java Servlet and all. While developing I was using Tomcat to deploy it in order to test it.
Now my development is done and I want to make it live. For that we have live server but as I am new to all this I dont know how to deploy my java web application on live server?
So please help me if you know to answer?
My Project Structure
ProjectName
->src
->beanClass
->class1
->Class2
->easyServlet
->Servlet1
->Servlet2
->Servlet3
->easyTrans
->Class1
->Class2
->Class3
->Class4
->build
->WebContent
->META-INF
->MENIFEST.mf
->WEB-INF
->lib(contain javascript files)
->web.xml
->html1
->html2
->html3
->html4
->html5
I am also using MySql so what I have to about it..
You will have to build a WAR of the project.
You can do this
in eclipse: right click on the project, Click "Export", and choose war file in the dialog (and mention, the destination, name and all)
via ant using the war task
The ant option is better because when you have multiple developers on the project and the code is in version control, it is easier to get the project automatically (using ant) and build a war. (you have version control, don't you?)
But this is more of an operational difference (albeit an important one) but the war created in either way are same
Deploy the war to the server
You can manually copy the war file to the $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps directory (See the "Creating and Deploying a WAR File" section on this article)
You can use the Tomcat 6 "Manager" application.
Update
You said that you are using MySql also. MySql should be installed on a server (it can be on the same server) and the configuration should be changed (username, password, server details) so that the application connects to the same database (I am sure you are not hard coding database details and credentials in your application and reading them from some configuration, this is the configuration that has to be changed)
For that we have live server but as I am new to all this I dont know how to deploy my java web application on live server?
I assume by this you meant , you have a public IP assigned to a server. Now you can install tomcat into this server and open the tomcat port for public and you will be able to access.
Now build a war file of your webapplication and put it into web-apps dir of the tomcat and start the server
Making a few assumptions here. You need
A tomcat instance running on your production server
Permissions to make changes to the tomcat instance
A war file that bundles your application
If you have both, then you need to navigate to the Tomcat manager page and follow the instructions to upload your war file.
Deploy the war to the server
You can manually copy the war file to the $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps directory.
You can use the Tomcat 6 "Manager" application.
I use Tomcat 6.0 and Eclipse 3.0 under Linux and I try to deploy a WAR in Tomcat. The problem is that the server is managed by Eclipse and I have some Eclipse project deployed. I tried to modify the server.xml file then launch Tomcat via Eclipse but it doesn't work:
Could not load the Tomcat server configuration at /Servers/Tomcat v6.0 Server at localhost-config. The configuration may be corrupt or incomplete.
I tried to extract the war in the webapps directory but the webapp is still inaccessible.
What is the best practice to deploy a War ?
Tomcat behaves differently in development and production mode. When you develop your webapp in Eclipse there is no reason to deploy a WAR file of your application as a WAR during development.
Just go to the "servers" view and add a new server (you should already have done this otherwise you could not create your Dynamic Web project). In the server view you should see the server you created (Tomcat at localhost or something similar) just right click it and go to the Add and Remove section. Here you can add and remove the Dynamic Web projects you created in Eclipse. Once you added your project, all you have to do is click the green start button in the servers view and your app should be available in at localhost:8080/mycontext.
When you're done building your app just right click the project and go the the Export section in the menu. You should be able to export a WAR file. Once you have your WAR file you can upload and deploy that on a Tomcat instance that is NOT tied to Eclipse running in dev mode.
Yes, in a way, you can deploy a war in the dev mode.
I have the same problem.
I have an Eclipse webapp project, which Eclipse deploys to an instance of Tomcat run by Eclipse, so I can hot-edit the project.
This Web project needs to use resources published by another webapp that has to be run within the same instance of Tomcat. The other webapp is a completed project by someone else, so it is already in a war form.
I needed to File->Import the war as an Eclipse project and let Eclipse deploy it to the same instance of Eclipse, in order to run it in the same instance of Tomcat in which my webapp also runs.
The problem is that some wars work this way but some others do not, while all of them work perfectly fine in a stand-alone Tomcat (started by startup.sh). I can't figure out why.
This is old but is one of the first answers in google search.
You can import the war file:
A Web Archive (WAR) file is a portable, packaged Web application
that you can import into your workspace.
Before importing a WAR file,
you should first determine if the WAR file contains needed Java™ source
files. When importing a WAR file into an existing Web project, the imported
Web deployment descriptor files are either not changed or overwritten by the
ones included in the imported WAR file, based on your response to the prompt
that is provided. In either case, this action does not represent a
merging of the two sets of deployment descriptors.
To import the
Web project resources in a WAR file into your workspace, complete the following
steps:
Select File > Import
.
In the Import dialog, select WAR file and
then click Next.
Locate the WAR file that you want to import using the Browse button.
The wizard assumes you want to create a new Web project with the
same name as the WAR file. If you accept this choice, the project will be
created with the same servlet version as specified by the WAR file and in
the same location. If you want to override these settings, you can click New and
specify your new settings in the Dynamic Web Project wizard.
Click Finish to populate the Web
project.
Source: http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.wst.webtools.doc.user%2Ftopics%2Ftwimpwar.html
If all you have is a binary WAR (no source code), it cannot be installed within Eclipse. This can happen in certain scenarios outside of normal development workflows. Here's the work-around solution:
Launch another instance of Tomcat (outside Eclipse).
Modify the tomcat-users.xml file to enable admin
Go to http://localhost:8080/manager/html
Scroll down to WAR file to deploy
Click Choose File (next to Select WAR file to upload) and click Deploy.