How to use Tomcat 8 in Eclipse?
Solution 1:
UPDATE: Eclipse Mars EE and later have native support for Tomcat8. Use this only if you have an earlier version of eclipse.
The latest version of Eclipse still does not support Tomcat 8, but you can add the new version of WTP and Tomcat 8 support will be added natively. To do this:
- Download the latest version of Eclipse for Java EE
- Go to the WTP downloads page, select the latest version (currently 3.6), and download the zip (under Traditional Zip Files...Web App Developers). Here's the current link.
- Copy the all of the files in features and plugins directories of the downloaded WTP into the corresponding Eclipse directories in your Eclipse folder (overwriting the existing files).
Start Eclipse and you should have a Tomcat 8 option available when you go to deploy.
Solution 2:
I follow Jason's step, but not works.
And then I find the WTP Update site http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/.
Help -> Install new software -> Add > WTP:http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/updates/ -> OK
Then Help -> Check for update, just works, I don't know whether Jason's affect this .
Solution 3:
The only thing the eclipse plugin is checking is the tomcat version inside:
catalina.jar!/org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo.properties
I replaced the properties file with the one in tomcat7 and that fixed the issue for eclipse
In order to be able to deploy the spring-websockets sample app you need to edit the following file in eclipse:
.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.xml
And change the web version to 2.5
<installed facet="jst.web" version="2.5"/>
Solution 4:
This should be a comment under the accepted answer, but I don't have 50 reputation yet.
At http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/
I first selected Released 3.5.2, which like others did not work for me. Then I picked Integration 3.6.0, and saw Tomcat 8 for New Project of Dynamic Web Project.