Eclipse & Tomcat

Eclipse- It's one of my favorite IDE to work in Java. It not only has support to Java/J2EE but also to SOA which is a technology on demand. So start using eclipse to make your java/j2ee coding easier as it displays code snippets along with your favorite webserver-TOMCAT.
Installation of Eclipse with Tomcat Plugin made Easier

• Download Eclipse Ganymede from the below site
• http://www.eclipse.org/ganymede/
• Extract the zip file,that's it eclipse is ready to use.
• Double click on the "Eclipse" icon (Eclipse.exe) to open Eclipse  
• Now to install the webserver tomcat
• Follow the link :www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html
• Extract the sysdeo tomcat plugin to your eclipse plugin folder (for eg. C:/Program Files/eclipse/plugins)
• Now, quit your eclipse incase if it's running and restart by typing the folowing in cmd prompt
• Move to the folder where eclipse in installed C:/Program files/Eclipse > Eclipse.exe -clean
• This will restart eclipse and now you can see your tomcat plugin installed by traversing through
• Windows >Preference >Tomcat
• Now, select the version of tomcat 5.x
• Set the context declaration mode as :Context Files
• and context directory as C:\Program Files\tomcat\apache-tomcat-5.5.29\conf\Catalina\localhost
• Now, You can see 3 icons appearing in the tools bar of eclipse(start,stop and restart tomcat)
• you can start the tomcat by clicking on start tomcat button
• Open a browser and type http://localhost:8080/, if you see the tomcat startup page then that's it VOILA!!!!!! 
• Your tomcat is set with eclipse.