Noob: Tomcat, Sysdeo, Eclipse

[Stan James]

I do servlets & JSPs all the time in a WSAD environment all set up for me, but I've never set up a new one for myself. To try it at home, I got Tomcat & Sysdeo plugged into my Eclipse environment but don't know where to set up applications.

The Tomcat sample app sets up like this in the Tomcat directory:

Entries              \webapps\sample\images\cvs
Hello       .class   \webapps\sample\web-inf\classes\mypackage
Hello       .java    \webapps\sample\web-inf\src\mypackage
hello       .jsp     \webapps\sample
index       .html    \webapps\sample
manifest    .mf      \webapps\sample\meta-inf
Repository           \webapps\sample\images\cvs
Root                 \webapps\sample\images\cvs
tomcat      .gif     \webapps\sample\images
web         .xml     \webapps\sample\web-inf                           

In Eclipse doing File/New/Tomcat Project got me an empty WEB-INF folder and that's about it. Following instructions from an IBM page I made an index.jsp in the project folder and //localhost:8080 shows it. Wow.

I'd like to set up my own projects to the standards used in sample with a webapps folder, web.xml file, etc. Can I put these folders into my Eclipse workspace somewhere or is Eclipse going to have a different structure for development? Is Sysdeo the best choice for this?

Thanks!!

Eclpise 3.1.0
Tomcat 5.5.16
Sysdeo 3.1
JDK 1.5.0_06