Running Tomcat source in eclipse

1. To http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7 download the Tomcat source code, this article uses is the Apache-tomcat-7.0.19-src.zip;

Note: If you download a different version of Tomcat, you are using a different version of the JDK. For example apache-tomcat-7.0.19-src.zip use jdk1.6 no problem;

And apache-tomcat-7.0.56 can not be used jdk1.6 need to use jdk1.7, if the use of jdk1.6 code will error, will not find some classes under Java.nio.

2. Create a new Java Project in eclipse named Tomcat7109 (optional);

3. Import all the files from the source code to the newly created project;

4. conf, Java, test three folders as the source folder.

Right-click on these three directories-->build Path-->use as Source Folder;

5. Compile at this time, will error, need to add some necessary jar package.

The required jar packages are:

Ant.jar

Geronimo-spec-jaxrpc-1.1-rc4.jar

Hamcrest-core-1.3.jar

Junit-4.11.jar

Wsdl4j-1.6.2.jar

How to get the jar package:

(1) Download online. Find out for yourself.

(2) Download the jar package yourself according to the Build.properties.default in the source code.

Download Geronimo-spec-jaxrpc-1.1-rc4.jar as An example: Open build.properties.default

Find #---- -Webservices-jax RPC-----
JAXRPC-LIB.VERSION=1.1-RC4
jaxrpc-lib.home=${base.path}/jaxrpc-${jaxrpc-lib.version}
jaxrpc-lib.loc=${base-maven.loc}/geronimo-spec/geronimo-spec-jaxrpc/${ Jaxrpc-lib.version}/geronimo- Spec-jaxrpc-${jaxrpc-lib.version}.jar
Span style= "White-space:pre" > jaxrpc-lib.jar=${jaxrpc-lib.home}/geronimo-spec-jaxrpc-${jaxrpc-lib.version }.jar

Send the address to connect. Base-maven.loc=http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2

Project structure such as:

Find the Org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap class and run to start Tomcat.

Attention:

When running Tomcat source code, if you encounter java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:listeners. Contextlistener error, delete the examples directory under WebApps.

Reference files:

http://blog.csdn.net/fwwdn/article/details/8773001

http://my.oschina.net/xpbug/blog/53610

Running Tomcat source in eclipse