hi rajaraman,
if a 3rd party tomcat plugin is to be considered..i defenetly endorse... "Sysdeo Eclipse Tomcat Launcher"( Free / Tomcat )
last updated version came at Jun 20, 2005
more details.
Version 2.2.1 for Eclipse 2.1.*, Version 3.1 beta for Eclipse 3.0/3.1
Features: - Starting, stopping and restarting Tomcat 5.x, Tomcat 4.x or 3.3 - Registering Tomcat process to Eclipse debugger - Creating or importing a WAR project (wizard can update ser...
http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatplugin