常规Tomcat实例中的Eclipse Tomcat端口更改或测试

Question

This is a Windows 7 development environment where Tomcat 7 is set to autostart in c:\\tomcat7 folder. That does work fine but I want to test my Java (.JSP) code right inside Eclipse Neon interface. So I configure Tomcat inside Eclipse by pointing to c:\\tomcat7 folder but I get the port 8080 already in use error.

I know what's happening: Tomcat is trying to start but it is already running. So I duplicated the c:\\tomcat7 folder to a c:\\tomcat7_for_eclipse folder, pointed Eclipse to that, then changed the port to 8081 via Eclipse but I now get an error:

Tomcat couldn't start;

and doing that actually stops the port 8080 instance of Tomcat.

There must be a simpler way to quickly deploy to the actual Tomcat to test applications or to do the port route as I tried above?

I am very new to Java, Eclipse, and Tomcat. So please bear with me: I have looked at online solutions but nothing helping so far.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think I got the two instances of Tomcat working simultaneously. Here is what I ended up doing:

1) Left the original instance of Tomcat on port 8080 as such

2) Inside Eclipse, added a new Server and this time downloaded to ac:\\tomcat7_for_eclipse2 folder.

3) Inside Eclipse, changed the ports to 8081 etc for the newly downloaded instance of Tomcat

This seems to be working fine: Both the regular instance of Tomcat continues to run while I can now launch the new instance of Tomcat right from inside Eclipse and quickly view my .JSP file's dynamic code.

This is sort of like what Microsoft Visual Studio does. I know it's not some 'best practices' but it keeps my development environment simpler.

Thanks to all for their help!