Manual Tomcat Execution

Tomcat with Eclipse (Details here) Tomcat with MyEclipse

1. Install Java. Make sure you have Java 5 or 6 installed.

2. Unzip Tomcat. Unzip tomcat-6.0.16-preconfigured.zip into the top level of the C drive.

3. Set JAVA_HOME. Set this environment variable to point at the top-level of your Java installation directory (e.g., C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_10). See this sample autoexec.bat file.

4. Set CLASSPATH. Set this environment variable to include ".", C:\Servlets+JSP, and the servlet/JSP JAR files. See this sample autoexec.bat file.

5. Test the server. Make sure you can start/stop the server. Test some sample HTML files, JSP pages, and servlets.