after playing around with an app that is deployed in tomcat using ant as a build tool, i'd like to now use eclipse. is there any plugin for tomcat for that or would i have to use remote debugging?

i have the jboss plugin, which has tomcat inside of it, i suppose thats one option, but wondered if there was a more direct plugin.

how do you guys typically set up your development environment if you were to use tomcat?

thanks for any tips

I remember using this one in the past, but now I don't even both running the web container through Eclipse. I do my development with Resin, which I find easier to work with than Tomcat. (Yes, they have an open source version). I develop on windows, I just put a shortcut to the Resin httpd.exe in my quick launch toolbar in windows. I just click the icon to start it, and close the console window to stop it. That seems the easiest to me, and since I use Freemarker instead of JSP, i have no need for JSP debugging.