Mystery of Vanishing Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin for Eclipse

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Sunday, September 18, 2005

I posted earlier about my inability to use Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin with Eclipse 3.1. I found the solution.

The problem was that no Tomcat related menu or options would appear. It is as if the plugin was not installed. And yet I had dutifully unzipped the plugin in the plugins directory as instructed.

The solution is so simple and yet I was not aware of it. So here it goes hoping it would help someone else too.

Run eclipse once from command line as shown below:
java -jar startup.jar -clean

This solves the problem. After that you can use your normal methods to load Eclipse.

Discussion

prav
August 20, 2007: 12:40 pm

Hi ppl,
initially i dint understand how/where to execute “java -jar startup.jar -clean”. I finally fixed the issue by editing the eclipse.ini file.

Added -clean as one of the options did the trick for me ;)


Sajad Ahmad
July 26, 2007: 4:45 am

Hi,
I downloded and unzipped com.sysdeo.eclipse.tomcat_3.2.1 plugin in plugins folder of the eclipse3.2. Though im getting the icons for starting and stoping the server in eclipse IDE, but im not able to run the server from IDE.Can anybody suggest wat can be the problem.

Sajad Ahmad


mza
May 10, 2007: 4:10 am

hello there,
sorry for not specify clearly, i’m using eclipse3.2 running with apache tomcat 5.5 on windows, i’m trying to run simple jsp file..but the error give:

cannot publish to the server because it is missing its runtime.

i did set up an env.variable
JAVA_HOME
C:Program File\java\jdk1.5.0\jre

TOMCAT_HOME
C:Program File\Apacher Software Foundation\Tomcat5.5

what should i add now to get the missing runtime?


mza
May 10, 2007: 2:53 am

hello,
i also faced the same problem, three days trying to solve it.i did download the sysdeo tomcatplugin v3.2 and unzip under the eclipsedirectory/plugin.

but i cannot event started my tomcat. it give me the error.

at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:275)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
10-May-2007 16:47:35 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol pause
INFO: Pausing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080

i’m really desperate to get out from the problem.any idea??


Deepthi
March 21, 2007: 7:42 am

hey thanks..it did slve my pblm!!!!


Seetha
November 2, 2006: 7:07 am

Thanks Angsuman, your solution helped me too… :)


legolas
September 15, 2006: 4:39 am

Inspite of using java -jar startup.jar -clean
i m getting this error
This release of Apache Tomcat was packaged to run on J2SE 5.0
or later. It can be run on earlier JVMs by downloading and
installing a compatibility package from the Apache Tomcat
binary download page


vas
April 12, 2006: 3:32 pm

thank u so much angsuman. i was struggling with a strange problem with maven plugin, and.. this trick solved it. unbelievable!


Aby Mathew
March 24, 2006: 5:05 am

I installed eclipse 3.0 ,Tomcat 5.0.28 , j2sd 1.4.1
And I added Sysdeo plugin . But I coudn’t run Tomcat server within Eclipse platform.
Please tell me the classpaths settings details

Thanks and Regards
Aby Mathew
SE ProxySystems Ltd.


Jean-Claude Dus
February 27, 2006: 10:23 am

Angsuman, thank you for this trip : one could easily run mad with this issue !


ABIRAMKUMAR
December 3, 2005: 3:34 am

hi all,
i am new to eclipse, plz send step by step process how to plugin tomcat 5.0 with eclipse 3.1.
plz help me.
thanks

October 17, 2005: 10:51 pm

[...] Solution to Tomcat 5.5 (Windows Executable) not showing up in Eclipse 3.1 with Sysdeo beta plugin. Run eclipse once from command line as shown below: java -jar startup.jar -clean [...]

September 24, 2005: 11:07 am

It cleans up the plugin information from Eclipse IDE. Eclipse re-reads the information from a clean state.


deuterium
September 24, 2005: 10:54 am

Thanks a lot for this solution :-)

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