posted 15 years ago
That is correct. The core Tomcat contains all the basics to run a Tomcat server, though in order to integrate it into Eclipse you'll need an Eclipse plug-in. Somewhere around Tomcat 5.0, the administrative webapps were removed from the package and made into a separate download. You only need them if you intend to use web-based administration of Tomcat, and that's something that you typically won't bother with in a development environment.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.