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Debugging your Tomcat Webapp with Eclipse

jasonb on Monday, May 3, 2010

For those of you who develop in Eclipse, and are also running Tomcat as a stand-alone JVM process (the way Tomcat is usually run), it is fairly easy to debug your web applications using the Eclipse debugger. For that matter, you could also debug Tomcat’s code this way as well, if you want to inspect [...]

Recompiling Tomcat May Cause Runtime Problems

jasonb on Thursday, September 24, 2009

It’s a very good thing that Tomcat is open source software. Because it is open, it enjoys broad stand-alone adoption, plus it has been incorporated as part of many other application server products, both commercial and open source. Why reinvent the wheel when Tomcat works great as a generic web container, and the source code is free? Many [...]