My original question "how to configure tomcat with eclipse" is resolved by following the link you gave. Yes I configured the Tomcat version and Home directory and it is starting when I click on start Tomcat button.
Since you asked me to "Check out the Hello World tutorial in the link". When I was checking that link, there it asked to create Tomcat project and I don't have that option( That's why I asked that question)
Though I have an option to create Web Project in File Menu but it is only allowing me to create GWT projects. Thats why I am confused as to how to create a web project to run on tomcat server with all the folders WEB-INF etc created automatically. Do we have to to run ant scripts for getting them also? or do we need to do them manually?
I don't know how to get and run
ant scripts. Probably that is why I am not getting any option for creating .war or .ear files in my eclipse menus.
The reason I am confused about that is because in my office, in eclipse3.3, they configured JBoss server and I could get options to create .war and .ear files and an option to create web applications, enterprise applications(which is not possible in Tomcat though) etc and it was automatically creating the tree structure needed while deploying.
Sorry if I am deviating from the original question and extending the same
thread.
However, Thanks for giving a resolution to my original question.