The Tomcat plugin for Intellij IDEA

The SmartTomcat will auto load the Webapp classes and libs from project and module, You needn't copy the classes and libs to the WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib. The Smart Tomcat plugin will auto config the classpath for tomcat server. The Smart Tomcat support Tomcat 6+

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• Tomcat Server Setting

   Navigate File -> Setting or Ctrl + Alt + S Open System Settings.
   In the Setting UI, go to Tomcat Server, and then add your tomcat servers, e.g. tomcat6, tomcat8, tomcat9
  

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• Run/Debug setup

   Navigat Run -> Edit Configrations to Open Run/Debug Configrations. 
   In the Run/Debug Configrations, add new configration, choose Smart Tomcat, 
   for detail config as below
  

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• Run/Debug config detail

  • Tomcat Server

     choose the tomcat server.
    

  • Deployment Directory

     the directory must be in project or module webapp. 
     maven or gradle project, the default folder is <project_name>/src/main/webapp
    

    DON'T add output webapp to deployment directory.

  • Custom Context

     opional, if webapp/META-INF/context.xml, if will auto add it.
     sample context.xml: 
    

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <Context>
     <Environment name="varName1" value="theValue1" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
     <Environment name="varName2" value="theValue2" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
     <Resource name="jdbc/ds"
     auth="Container"
     type="javax.sql.DataSource"
     username="sa"
     password="sa"
     driverClassName="org.h2.Driver"
     url="jdbc:h2:mem:db;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1"
     maxActive="8"
     maxIdle="4"/>
    </Context>

    In Java Servlet, we can call it as below

     Context ctx = new InitialContext();
     ctx = (Context) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env");
     String value1 = (String) ctx.lookup("varName1");
     String value2 = (String) ctx.lookup("varName2");
     DataSource datasource = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("jdbc/ds");

  • Context Path

     default value is '/<module_name>'
    

  • Server Port

     default value is 8080
    

  • (削除) AJP Port (削除ここまで)

    (削除) default value is 8009 (削除ここまで)

  • Admin Port

     default value is 8005
    

  • VM Options

     extract tomcat VM options
     e.g. -Duser.language=en
    

  • Env Options

     extract tomcat env parmaters
     e.g. param1=value1