If you're wondering why I'm trying to do this at all, I'm playing around with Spring 4.0.0.M1 and 4.0.0.M2 WebSocket stuff. Is my only option to get it (Tomcat 8) running locally outside of Eclipse and maybe hook a remote debugger into it for stepping through code? Will that even work for Eclipse Kepler + Tomcat 8? IntelliJ IDEA 12 couldn't do it in the 30 minutes of time I put into that path. the Tomcat 7 adapter doesn't work, and it doesn't look like there's a new extension for it to download in the 'Install new Extension' dialog. In Eclipse Kepler though, there is no supported adapter in the add server list for Tomcat 8. Update 2/27/14: 8 is released now, and adapters built for WTP, just not integrated into eclipse bundles yet. Now there is a RC version on the main Apache Tomcat page.

Tomcat 8 is still in development, but you can get it here.

If you haven't integrated Tomcat into your Eclipse environment, you're losing out on some great enhancements to your development process.EDIT : Eclipse Luna is here, and support for Tomcat 8 is included in the bundled WTP : ) Happy days! Apache Tomcat eclipse integration An illustrated quick start guide Apache Tomcat makes hosting your applications easy. Mark down the Port Number Tomcat is running on. Go to server tab and double click on the TomCat server, configuration file for Tomcat will open and look like this: 2. This is how you can go about fixing the issue: 1. Issue typically arises from either Eclipse or Tomcat process crash or being stuck. This is made possible through the provided Web Tools Platform (WTP) plugins that can manage web artefacts, their compilation, and their deployment into the web server. Tomcat 8 inside Eclipse Eclipse for JEE developers allows the integration of Tomcat with other application servers within the development environment. If you haven't integrated Tomcat into your Eclipse environment, you're losing out on some great enhancements to your development process.

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