Servlet Container Toolbar

Exadel Studio allows you to control its directly supported servlet containers from within Eclipse through a special toolbar. You can select a servlet container (Tomcat is the default on installation), start it in regular or debug mode, stop it, or restart it. For the current application, you can touch the web.xml file. Also, you can launch the current application in the servlet container.

Note: You also can run your application in any other server that is not listed here. Simply deploy and start the server manually.

The servlet toolbar is shown below.

You can select which server to use for running the application.

Select the green colored icon to launch the server.

Tip: Server output will be written to the Console view.

Select the Run icon to launch the application. The URL that will be launched will be in a form like http://localhost:8080/applicationName .

Note: You might need to create an index.html file for your application to start. Note: You have to have deployed the application before running it.

To see what URL will be launched, select the down pointing arrow. Exadel Studio will also remember the last few URLs that were used.

Tip: To enter a URL by hand, select Run... from the menu.

Server Container Preferences

In Preferences, you can control how Exadel Studio interacts with servlet containers. By selecting the appropriate switch, you can control which browser is used to run the application and settings for each type of supported servlet container.