relationship bettween ant,tomcat and eclipse

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Hey guys

i'm tryng to run a program using ant,tomcat and eclipse. can anyone tell me the relationship bettween these three? im confused of creating and developing build.xml file.

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Posted 17-Jul-13 19:01pm

mali_angel

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jul-13 1:06am

Why not simply reading about each of these products?
—SA

pasztorpisti 18-Jul-13 4:34am

Exactly. A good start is usually checking out wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_%28software%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Ant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat
Regarding Tomcat: It is just a servlet container for web development without a lot of other features supported by full fledged application servers (like Glassfish, WebSphere, JBoss, ...). Tomcat supports only the servlet api (with jstl, jsp) while an application server usually supports a lot of java ee related apis: JTA, JMS, EJB, ...

mali_angel 18-Jul-13 23:18pm

thank you :)

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H.Brydon · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-17T19:23:00

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Eclipse is an IDE for developing/debugging any one of several languages (usually Java - I assume that is your language of interest). Apach ant[^] is actually an acronym for "Another Neat Tool" but is really a compile environment; generally an xml based replacement for the makefile system. Apache Tomcat[^]is an Apache web server.

Eclipse and ant run on most platforms. Tomcat is unix/linux only.

[rev.1: Tomcat is a web server not a browser.]

Posted 17-Jul-13 19:23pm

H.Brydon

Updated 17-Jul-13 19:39pm

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mali_angel 18-Jul-13 1:35am

Do we need all three two develop and run a program?

H.Brydon 18-Jul-13 1:39am

Eclipse has several competitors. Ant is one of several build systems available for use with Eclipse (ask Google about ant vs Maven for example). Tomcat is one of several web servers.

You really don't need any of these to run a program, but think of the difference between swimming across a lake vs using a boat.

mali_angel 18-Jul-13 3:30am

this links says "http://www.mulesoft.com/tomcat-60" "Windows users can either download the 32 or 64-bit binary distribution and install Tomcat manually..." but u said it can only for unix/linux..

H.Brydon 18-Jul-13 3:36am

How about that. Looks like it will run on Mac as well. News to me...

Well, it originated in the unix/linux world. Looks like it is now available on the 3 major platforms (Torvalds, Gates, Jobs).

pasztorpisti 18-Jul-13 4:04am

I have used the windows version of Tomcat years ago for development, worked like a charm for me.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Jul-13 10:20am

Answered, a 5. :-)
—SA

mali_angel 18-Jul-13 23:18pm

thank u all answers :)