One can skip this section when working with a Spring Boot project. This is because starting a Spring boot application, using public static void main as an entry point, launches an embedded web server and, thus, one would not require starting a server such as Tomcat.
In this section, we will learn about some of the following:
- How to install and configure the Apache Tomcat server
- Common deployment approaches with the Tomcat server
- How to add the Tomcat server in Eclipse
The Apache Tomcat software is an open-source implementation of the Java servlet, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), Java Expression Language, and Java WebSocket technologies. We will work with Apache Tomcat 8.x version in this book. We will look at both, the Windows and Unix version of Java. One can go to http://tomcat.apache.org/ and download the appropriate...