Eclipse Neon (4.6.3) Tomcat debug server menu is disabled

Question

I am attempting to move a legacy java application that has been running under Jetty over to Tomcat 8. To this end I want to launch the java app in a Tomcat 8 debug configuration from Eclipse so I can work through all the problems in the code and configuration. However, when I open the Tomcat section of the Debug Configurations and add a new configuration the server menu is disabled and greyed out.

Image of Tomcat Debug Configuration

I have created and recreated the Tomcat server in the Server Configuration panel of Window/Preferences multiple times but the server select remains disabled in the Debug Configurations.

Tomcat 8 server configuration

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You would instead define and control Tomcat instances from the Servers View . The Launch Configuration dialog can't present the necessary UI for controlling the aspects of a server handled in configuration files, nor control which set of projects you're trying to include as apps on that server instance.