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Installationof clipse &

omcat forMac OSX

Yosemite

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January 21, 2015


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Eclipse

(1) Head over to the Downloads section of the Eclipse website: https://

www.eclipse.org/downloads/

(2) Download the Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers Mac OS X 64 bit

which is the version we will need in order to run the Apache Tomcat

server within Eclipse

(3) Unzip the file within your Downloads folder.

(4) Move this unzipped folder to your Applications folder.


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https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/


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(5) Eclipse is now installed as an application and can be accessed from

your Launchpad.

(6) Any other remaining files can be removed from your Downloads

folder.


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Tomcat 8.0.17

(1) Head over to the Downloads section of the Apache Tomcat website

for Tomcat version 8.0.17: http://tomcat.apache.org/

download-80.cgi

(2) Download the tar.gz file under Binary Distributions! Core.

(3) Unzip the file within your Downloads folder.


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http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi


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(4) Move this folder from the unzip to your Library folder, which can be

found under ~/Library using the Go to Folder in Finder’s menubar.

(5) Rename this folder to Tomcat.

(6) You now have Apache Tomcat installed.

(7) Any other remaining files can be removed from your Downloads

folder.


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Setting up Eclipse To Work

with Tomcat(1) Open up your Eclipse application from Launchpad or Finder.

(2) Go to File! New ! Other! Web! Dynamic Web Project


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(3) Press Next

(4) Call your new Dynamic Web Project anything. I called mine

HelloWorld.


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(5) Under Target runtime , click the button New Runtime…

(6) Go to Apache ! Apache Tomcat v8.0

(7) Press Next

(8) Under Tomcat Installation Directory , click the button Browse…


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(9) This is where you will use Finder to set up the directory to /Users/

/Library/Tomcat. My directory would be /Users/

fvcproductions/Library/Tomcat


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(10) If you do not have the Tomcat folder set up yet then please refer to

Step 5 of the Tomcat 8.0.17 Installation Guide.

(11) Press Finish

(12) Press Finish again to finalize setting up your project and confirm that

the Target runtime is set up to Apache Tomcat 8.0

(13) Under the HelloWorld folder, go to the Web Content folder, right click

and select New! JSP File


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(14) You can call this file index.jsp

(15) Press Finish

(16) In the index.jsp file, you can go ahead and rename the to

whatever you want. I just made the Yo. In the you can also

add a header or paragraph. I inserted a paragraph with the text

Carbon Based Human.

(17) Save your file.

(18) Go back to your HelloWorld project folder, right click, and go to Run

As! Run on Server


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(19) Select the existing server set up from Step 13 called Tomcat v8.0 Server

at localhost


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(20) Press Finish


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(21) A new tab will pop up in Eclipse where you see the title you set up in

index.jsp. In my case, the tab has the title Yo

(22) You have now set up a very basic dynamic web project on Eclipse

using Apache Tomcat 8.0


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