Arvind Chourasia

Hello Akhilesh,

thanks for the replies.

I was also facing the same problem as Naveen mentioned in the very starting of the thread.

I searched on google and found the page on tomcat site "http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html".
which gave me idea to stop the running tomcat server (as WinNT Service) from Windows Services console (To Open it, Go to 'Run' > type 'Services.msc' and hit enter).

I stopped the Apache Tomcat Service from there and made its startup type as 'Manual' to avoid already started service every time I start the system.

After stopping the 'Apache Tomcat Service', Now i am able to start the Tomcat Server from Eclipse IDE.

Hope this would help.

Thanks Everyone..

Akhilesh Trivedi wrote:

naveen yadav wrote:same old story.

can i uninstall Tomcat from window-XP and then use Eclipse plug-in to install tomcat ? how can i do that ?

You can uninstall any program on xp from control panel. If you see it in add/remove programs then go ahead.
You can then download zip and install Tomcat(not as windows-service but rather a single folder).
What plug-in are you using currently, i think there is one called sysdeo. You can google it.
Plugin will not have Tomcat, you will have to first install tomcat and then use-plugin (probably copy-paste plugin files into some folders of eclipse inst directory) to connect tomcat with eclipse.
Restart eclipse(close and re-open after plugin-installation)
Now you should see stop-start icons of tomcat inside eclipse itself.
This should do.

Installing plugin enables you to start-stop-deploy-undeploy wars to tomcat from within the eclipse, however you are still free to use eclipse for development alone and manage deployments outside of it.

If you have time, I would suggest you still play around with your old installation before you think of uninstall-reinstall, you may have a learning experience.


Missed it, after successful installation of plugin you may to configure it to point to Tomcat installation directory.