eclipse - Unknown version of Tomcat was specified. windows 10

Question

I have downloaded the newest version of apache tomcat and I want to connect tomcat with eclipse.When I try to I get

I have seen many answers about this but in ubuntu not windows 10. My eclipse version is 2020-09 (4.17.0) I don't know maybe that's the problem

I also saw that Apache Tomcat version 9 supports JAVA EE, 5,6,7,8 Web modules and I have jdk 14.02 as my path. Maybe this is the problem

Answer 1

Using a version installed to be run by your OS means an unpredictable file and jar layout, and the server tools need to know the layout to gather the right libraries to run Tomcat properly with full control of the created process for debugging. Use a zip file or tarball straight from tomcat.apache.org instead.