[vbfischer]

Having spent a bit of the past few months working with IntelliJ Idea 5.x, there’s one feature I really liked.

I have different clients that run several different Tomcat webapps. Instead of having all the webapps load in Tomcat each time (which would be quite a few), I have several webapp roots that I use for each. Idea would let you configure many different configuraions when running Tomcat, by specifying the “CATALINA_BASE” to that root. That way, I could launch it and only run those webapps I want to run.

I get around it a little by putting the root somewhere other than <tomcat>/webapps, and then copying any <context>.xml files into conf/catalina/localhost that I want to launch. Its just a bit more elegant the other way.

Thanks
Bryce

[Andrew Freeman]

+1 (again)

[Russell Pitre]

+1

[David Orriss Jr]

I have to admit I would LOVE to be able to manage mutliple versions of TC 5 in a given workspace. That’s one thing that makes me a bit batty about the current app server support.

[Dave S-B]

+1
There are loads of reasons why we have to have different instances of the same web application server (we use Tomcat, but it goes for all servers). Instead of just having a fixed list of supported servers where you can only have one lot of settings each, allow us to add application servers to the list where we specify what type of server it is (from the supported list) and give the details (including a descriptive name). Or add another level to the application server tree so that under each server is a list of instances – why not allow us to provide default properties under the top level application server, then be able to override them within individual instances – that would be cool.

[rogue_dev]

+1
And this would be a good place for the automatic/manual deployment checkbox we discussed a while back.

[Paul]

+1

I’d love the speed improvement in not loading extra webapps…

[marpla]

+1

I also would like to configure multiple instances (e.g. of Tomcat) to deploy to different servers.

[msquared]

+1
its a major pain not having this ability

[mattrubyred]

+1

I think something closer to WSAD’s server perspective/views would help save some time.

[Stefano Giordano]

Yess! it would be a very handy feature; I am currently developing a webapp and I’d need to have it deployed on both Tomcat 5 and 5.5 (pluto based).

BTW a pluto/portlet integration would be nice as well 😉

Stefano

[lindholm42]

+1 as well.

I was really surprised when I wasn’t able to use the wst tomcat option to run in a private instance,
and not being able to edit the server.xml file when I first looked at myEclipseIDE

George

[iimuhin]

+1

[chivo]

+1

[spitfire]

+1

We use multiple instances of JBoss for various apps, and they don’t always play nice. Being able to create multiple Jboss 4 (or any app server type) instances would be a joyous thing.

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