SmartTomcat

The Tomcat plugin for Intellij IDEA

User Guide

Tomcat Server Setting

  Navigate File -> Setting or Ctrl + Alt + S  Open System Settings.
  In the Setting UI, go to Tomcat Server, and then add your tomcat servers, e.g. tomcat6, tomcat8, tomcat9

Run/Debug setup

  Navigat Run -> Edit Configrations to Open Run/Debug Configrations. 
  In the Run/Debug Configrations, add new configration, choose Smart Tomcat, 
  for detail config as below

Run/Debug config detail

Tomcat Server
```
  choose the tomcat server.
```

Deployment Directory

  the directory must be in project or module webapp. 
  maven or gradle project, the default folder is <project_name>/src/main/webapp

DON'T add output webapp to deployment directory.

Custom Context

  opional, if webapp/META-INF/context.xml, if will auto add it.
  sample context.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Context>
    <Environment name="varName1" value="theValue1" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>
    <Environment name="varName2" value="theValue2" type="java.lang.String" override="false"/>

    <Resource name="jdbc/ds"
              auth="Container"
              type="javax.sql.DataSource"
              username="sa"
              password="sa"
              driverClassName="org.h2.Driver"
              url="jdbc:h2:mem:db;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1"
              maxActive="8"
              maxIdle="4"/>
</Context>

In Java Servlet, we can call it as below

      Context ctx = new InitialContext();
      ctx = (Context) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env");
      String value1 = (String) ctx.lookup("varName1");
      String value2 = (String) ctx.lookup("varName2");
      DataSource datasource = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("jdbc/ds");

Context Path
```
  default value is '/<module_name>'
```
Server Port
```
  default value is 8080
```
~~AJP Port~~

~~default value is 8009~~
Admin Port
```
  default value is 8005
```

VM Options

  extract tomcat VM options
  e.g. -Duser.language=en

Env Options

  extract tomcat env parmaters
  e.g. param1=value1

siegluo/SmartTomcat

SmartTomcat

User Guide