Tomcat in Intellij Idea Community Edition

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Is it possible to run a web application using Tomcat Server in Intellij Idea Community Edition   I tried to find some information about it but haven t achived any success

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Intellij Community does not offer Java application server integration. Your alternatives are

buying Intellij licence,
switching to Eclipse ;)
installing Smart Tomcat plugin https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9492
installing IDEA Jetty Runner plugin https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7505
running the application server from Maven, Gradle, whatever, as outlined in the other answers.

I personally installed the Jetty Runner plugin (Jetty is fine for me, I do not need Tomcat) and I am satisfied with this solution. I had to deal with IntelliJ idea - Jetty, report an exception, though.

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VM  -Djava endorsed dirs  C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 8 0 common endorsed       -Dcatalina base  C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 8 0        -Dcatalina home  C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 8 0       -Djava io tmpdir  C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation Tomcat 8 0 temp       -Xmx1024M

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You can use tomcat plugin with gradle  For more information  you here   apply plugin   tomcat   dependencies       classpath  org gradle api plugins gradle-tomcat-plugin 1 2 4      compileJava  compileTestJava   options  encoding    UTF-8    tomcatRun  tomcatRunWar  tomcatStop   stopPort   8090  tomcatRun  tomcatRunWar  tomcatStop   stopKey    stfu  tomcatRunWar contextPath      rootProject name  tomcatRunWar ajpPort   8000  if  checkBeforeRun toBoolean          tomcatRunWar   dependsOn      check

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Tomcat can also be integrated with IntelliJ Idea - Community Edition with Tomcat Runner Plugin   Details below  https   plugins jetbrains com plugin 8266-tomcat-runner-plugin-for-intellij

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Yes  its possible and its fairly easy    Near the run button  from the dropdown  choose  edit configurations     On the left  click the plus  then maven and rename it  Tomcat  on the right side  for command line  enter  spring-boot run  Under the runner tab  for  VM Options   enter  -XX MaxPermSize 256m -Xms128m -Xmx512m -Djava awt headless true   NOTE   use project settings  should be unticked  For environment variables enter  env dev  Finally  click Ok    When you re ready to press run  if you go to  localhost 8080  lt  page name     you ll see your page   My pom xml file is the same as the Official spring tutorial Serving Web Content with Spring MVC   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8   gt   lt project xmlns  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0  xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance           xsi schemaLocation  http   maven apache org POM 4 0 0 http   maven apache org xsd maven-4 0 0 xsd  gt       lt modelVersion gt 4 0 0 lt  modelVersion gt        lt groupId gt org springframework lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt gs-serving-web-content lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 0 1 0 lt  version gt        lt parent gt           lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-parent lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 1 4 2 RELEASE lt  version gt       lt  parent gt        lt dependencies gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf lt  artifactId gt           lt  dependency gt           lt dependency gt               lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt               lt artifactId gt spring-boot-devtools lt  artifactId gt               lt optional gt true lt  optional gt           lt  dependency gt       lt  dependencies gt        lt properties gt           lt java version gt 1 8 lt  java version gt       lt  properties gt         lt build gt           lt plugins gt               lt plugin gt                   lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt                   lt artifactId gt spring-boot-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt               lt  plugin gt           lt  plugins gt       lt  build gt    lt  project gt

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If you are using maven  you can use this command mvn tomcat run  but first you add in your pom xml this structure into build tag  just like this    lt build gt       lt finalName gt mvn-webapp-test lt  finalName gt         lt plugins gt             lt plugin gt                 lt groupId gt org apache maven plugins lt  groupId gt                 lt artifactId gt maven-compiler-plugin lt  artifactId gt                 lt version gt   maven compiler plugin version  lt  version gt                 lt configuration gt                     lt source gt 1 6 lt  source gt                     lt target gt 1 6 lt  target gt                 lt  configuration gt             lt  plugin gt         lt  plugins gt     lt  build gt

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Tomcat  Headless  can be integrated with IntelliJ Idea - Community edition   Step-by-step instructions are as below    Add tomcatX-maven-plugin to pom xml   lt build gt       lt plugins gt           lt plugin gt                lt groupId gt org apache tomcat maven lt  groupId gt                lt artifactId gt tomcat7-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt                lt version gt 2 2 lt  version gt                lt configuration gt                    lt path gt SampleProject lt  path gt                lt  configuration gt           lt  plugin gt       lt  plugins gt   lt  build gt   Add new run configuration as below   Run  gt  gt  Edit Configurations  gt  gt     gt  gt  Maven  Parameters tab     Name    Tomcat Working Directory    Project Root Directory Command Line    tomcat7 run  Runner tab     VM Options     lt user needed options gt  JRE     lt project needed gt   Invoke Tomcat in Run Debug mode directly from IntelliJ  Run    Run Debug menu   NOTE  Though this is considered a hacking of using using Tomcat integration features of IntelliJ - Enterprise version features  but I would consider this a programmatic way integrating tomcat to the IntelliJ Idea - community edition

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Well the question is already answered  however what I am writing here is just my observation so other fellows in the community can save some of their time  I tried running a spring-mvc project using the embedded tom-cat in Intellij communit edition  First try I did was using the Gradle tom-cat plugin  however the problem that I faced there is the tomcat server just starts once  after that from the second start the build complains saying that a container is already running  There are so many open thread on the web about this  for some it works and for most of the people  almost 90  of the web threads that I broke my head with  faced the same problem of container not getting started the second time  The resolution is not there  After wasting a lot lot of my time  I finally decided to switch to maven tom-cat plugin and do the same spring-mvc setup with maven that I did with gradle and VOILA  it worked in the first short  So long story short  if you are setting up spring-mvc project in intellij community edition  please consider maven tomcat plugin  Hope this helps somebody s hours of exploration across various web forums

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Yes  you can use maven plugin  or simple java program  No need for IDE plugin  See for example Main class from https   devcenter heroku com articles create-a-java-web-application-using-embedded-tomcat

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Found this good site  https   stefancosma xyz 2018 10 01 how-to-use-tomcat-intellij-idea-community  All credits to the author

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I think maven is not installed properly  check with mvn --v or Please check maven home path in env variables or you have created this project before the installation of maven

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I am using intellij CE to create the WAR  and deploying the war externally using tomcat deployment manager  This works for testing the application however I still couldnt find the way to debug it    open cmd and current dir to tomcat bin  you can start and stop the server using the batch files start bat and shutdown bat  Now build your app using mvn goal in intellij  Open localhost 8080     Your port number may differ  Use this tomcat application to deploy the application  If you get the authentication error  you would need to set the credentials under conf tomcat-users xml

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I used  Jay Lin s answer  Highly recommend it   If you never used Maven before and don t want to go deep into it  follow Jay Lin s answer  but also do this    right click on your project name -  Add Framework support -  Maven  Then install maven from here http   maven apache org install html  Do what it says  run the commands   Then install spring-boot from here https   mvnrepository com  Then follow the error messages if there are any - maybe you would need to install some other stuff  just google it and that mvnrepository com would come up   To install use this command    mvn install install-file -DgroupId  -DartifactId  -Dversion  -Dpackaging jar -Dfile path   replace path with where you downloaded the jar file  replace version  group and artifact id with info from mvnrepository com     Further errors I encountered    I had to create a class in src main java  with simple System out println command in main  and add  lt start-class gt main java Hello lt  start-class gt  in  lt properties gt  tag in pom xml  Btw  the pom xml should appear itself when you do the first action from my answer - copy paste Jay Lin s code there   Another error I got was connected to JAVA HOME variable and the verion stuff  Somewhy it thought jdk is 7th version and I was telling it was 8th  So I changed the java version tag in  lt properties gt  to this  lt java version gt 1 7 lt  java version gt     Now it works fine  Good luck everyone

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Using Maven  try tomcat7-maven-plugin      lt build gt             lt plugins gt                 lt plugin gt                     lt groupId gt org apache tomcat maven lt  groupId gt                     lt artifactId gt tomcat7-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt                     lt version gt 2 2 lt  version gt                     lt configuration gt                         lt path gt   lt  path gt                         lt contextFile gt src main webapp WEB-INF config app-config xml lt  contextFile gt                         lt mode gt context lt  mode gt                         lt charset gt UTF-8 lt  charset gt                         lt warDirectory gt target   project artifactId -  project version  lt  warDirectory gt                     lt  configuration gt                 lt  plugin gt             lt  plugins gt     lt  build gt    Run it using tomcat7 run-war  More goals here

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If you use Gradle  you can try my script  https   github com Adrninistrator IDEA-IC-Tomcat  This script will build files for web application  create a Tomcat instance  start Tomcat and load the web application

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The maven plugin and embedded Tomcat are usable work-arounds  I like second better because you can debug  but actual web server integration is a feature only available in intelij paid editions

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For Intellij 14 0 0 the Application server option is available under  View   Tools window   Application Server  But if it is enable  i mean if you have any plugin installed

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