SmartTomcat

The Tomcat plugin for Intellij IDEA

The SmartTomcat will auto load the Webapp classes and libs from project and module, You needn't copy the classes and libs to the WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib. The Smart Tomcat plugin will auto config the classpath for tomcat server. The Smart Tomcat support Tomcat 6+

User Guide

• Tomcat Server Setting

    Navigate File -> Setting or Ctrl + Alt + S  Open System Settings.
    In the Setting UI, go to Tomcat Server, and then add your tomcat servers, e.g. tomcat6, tomcat8, tomcat9
  

• Run/Debug setup

    Navigat Run -> Edit Configrations to Open Run/Debug Configrations. 
    In the Run/Debug Configrations, add new configration, choose Smart Tomcat, 
    for detail config as below
  

• Run/Debug config detail

  • Tomcat Server

      choose the tomcat server.
    

  • Deployment Directory

      the directory must be in project or module webapp. 
      maven or gradle project, the default folder is <project_name>/src/main/webapp
    

    DON'T add output webapp to deployment directory.

  • Custom Context

      opional, if webapp/META-INF/context.xml, if will auto add it.
      sample context.xml:    
    

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    
    <Context>
        <Environment name="varName1" value="theValue1" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
        <Environment name="varName2" value="theValue2" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
    
        <Resource name="jdbc/ds"
                  auth="Container"
                  type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                  username="sa"
                  password="sa"
                  driverClassName="org.h2.Driver"
                  url="jdbc:h2:mem:db;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1"
                  maxActive="8"
                  maxIdle="4"/>
    </Context>

    In Java Servlet, we can call it as below

          Context ctx = new InitialContext();
          ctx = (Context) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env");
          String value1 = (String) ctx.lookup("varName1");
          String value2 = (String) ctx.lookup("varName2");
          DataSource datasource = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("jdbc/ds");

  • Context Path

      default value is '/<module_name>'
    

  • Server Port

      default value is 8080
    

  • AJP Port

    default value is 8009

  • Admin Port

      default value is 8005
    

  • VM Options

      extract tomcat VM options
      e.g. -Duser.language=en
    

  • Env Options

      extract tomcat env parmaters
      e.g. param1=value1