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- Make sure you've installed the Web Standard Tools (WST) and Java Standard Tools (JST) plugins
- TBD doc this
- Make sure you have a jdk 1.5 runtime configured in eclipse
- Window > Preferences > Java > Installed JREs
- Make sure it is a jdk, not a jre or tomcat can't compile jsps
- Make sure it is also selected as a jdk execution environment, Installed JREs > Execution Environment
- Show the Servers view, Window > Show View > Other > Servers
- Check out the preconfigured tomcat from the tools dir in svn
- Go to SVN Repositories > framework-dev > tools
- Right click apache-tomcat-xxx, check out as
- Check it out as a simple "Project"
- Once checked out, delete the project but not the contents of it (this is necessary because of some path conflict when starting tomcat)
- Add the Tomcat server:
- Right click in the Servers window and select New > Server
- Apache > Tomcat 5.5, Next
- Tomcat Installation Directory - Browse to where you checked out tomcat from svn
- JRE - select the 1.5 jdk
- Finish
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