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