Installing a remote Tomcat server in Eclipse

Question

I want to deploy and debug a local web application using a remote instance of Eclipse. I went through the normal "Create a server" wizard and specified my hostname as show below:

However, the next step requires I specify a local tomcat directory. How can I specify a remote location instead?

Answer 1

Assuming you have started tomcat process with the appropriate debug options, the way to remote debug (webapp or standalone app) is to setup a "Remote Java Application" debug configuration for your webapp project in eclipse.

(Available via Run->Debug Configurations->Remote Java application)