The Sysdeo Eclipse Tomcat Launcher plugin makes it possible for Eclipse to communicate with Tomcat. Follow these directions to install and configure it.

1. Download the plugin, which comes packaged as a zip file.

2. If you're using your own copy of Eclipse, simply unzip the plugin into the Eclipse plugins directory.

3. If you're using Eclipse in the CADE Lab:
   • Create a directory in your home directory to store Eclipse plugins. You can call it anything you wish, but let's assume that you call it eclipseplugins.

   • In eclipseplugins create a directory called plugins.

   • Unzip the Sysdeo plugin into this plugins directory.

   • Assuming that you've run Eclipse at least once, you'll find the file

     .eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.3.0_574464424/configuration/org.eclipse.update/platform.xml
     

     in your home directory. Add the following line immediately before the closing </config> tag:

     <site enabled="true" policy="USER-EXCLUDE" updateable="true" url="file:/home/<username>/eclipseplugins/"></site>
     

     where <username> is your login name.

   • In the future, if you want to install any more plugins, simply drop them into your local plugins directory.

4. After you've installed the plugin, start Eclipse (the executable is in the Eclipse root directory). Pull down the

   Windows > Preferences > Tomcat
   

   menu. Choose "Version 6.x" and enter the Tomcat root directory as "Tomcat home." Then click the plus sign next to the Tomcat menu, click on "Tomcat Manager App," enter a username and (insecure) password of your choice, and click on "Add user to tomcat-users.xml". Close down all the dialogs and you're good to go.