JBoss Tools with Tomcat 6

[damatrix]

Hi,

We have a project that might require us to use Seam (if we decide to go with JSF) along with Tomcat 6. One of the issues on the table that will affect the decision to use Seam is productivity.

I was enthused therefore when I found JBoss Tools give productivity such a boost in Seam development. However, my problem is that it seems that the only way I could use JBoss Tools effectively is if I'm using JBoss - and unfortunately we don't want to use ny EJB container. I read Chapter 3 of the reference manual on JBoss Tools and there was a reference to tweaking it to suit other application servers but there seems to be nothing on Tomcat.

I'd be very glad then if you could give me a few pointers as to how to if possible tweak JBoss Tools to enable the same kind of ease of use with Tomcat as you've already provided with JBoss AS.

Thanks.

[maxandersen]

I have not tried, but any instructions that is in the seam docs should just be applied to the project in jboss tools too.

The IDE does not do anything magically to the server besides deploying the -ds.xml, but that is not relevant in Tomcat.

[damatrix]

Finally sorted this out myself. Here is a post i wrote on it

http://edemmorny.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/tweaking-jboss-tools-and-eclipse-for-tomcat-6/

[maxandersen]

Great blog - thanks for writing that up!