[gentoo-java] Re: Eclipse WTP & Gentoo installed Tomcat

["Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@gmx.de>]

William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 20:46 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> Jörg Schaible kirjoitti:
>> > Hello Java group,
>> > 
>> > does anybody know, how I get Eclipse WTP to accept the Tomcat 5.5
>> > installed with the Gentoo ebuild as valid "Apache Tomcat 5.5" runtime?
>> > I tried to point to /var/lib/tomcat-5.5 or /usr/share/tomcat-5.5, but
>> > it is not accepted ...
>> > 
>> > - Jörg
>> > 
>> 
>> Probably because of
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=113484
> 
> This also came up on the Tomcat development mailing list. Here is a
> snippet from that.
> 
> "Currently in WTP, Tomcat
> servers default to separate catalina.base and catalina.home.
> The problem is that you don't get to choose the location for
> catalina.base as it is assigned by the plug-in.  In
> WTP 2.0, you will be able to specify the catalina.base
> location."
> 
> Which seems that if one can get at the config file or etc. It might be
> possible for one to manually set that. Just not via any GUI provided by
> or as part of the plugin.

I tried now with 2.0M3, but no avail. It's not the first time they postpone
features ... :-/

- Jörg

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