Tomcat in Intellij Idea Community Edition

Question

Is it possible to run a web application using Tomcat Server in Intellij Idea Community Edition?

I tried to find some information about it but haven't achived any success.

Answer 1

Intellij Community does not offer Java application server integration. Your alternatives are

1. buying Intellij licence,
2. switching to Eclipse ;)
3. installing Smart Tomcat plugin https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9492
4. installing IDEA Jetty Runner plugin https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7505
5. running the application server from Maven, Gradle, whatever, as outlined in the other answers.

I personally installed the Jetty Runner plugin (Jetty is fine for me, I do not need Tomcat) and I am satisfied with this solution. I had to deal with IntelliJ idea - Jetty, report an exception, though.

Answer 2

If you are using maven, you can use this command mvn tomcat:run, but first you add in your pom.xml this structure into build tag, just like this:

<build>     <finalName>mvn-webapp-test</finalName>       <plugins>           <plugin>               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>               <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>               <version>${maven.compiler.plugin.version}</version>               <configuration>                   <source>1.6</source>                   <target>1.6</target>               </configuration>           </plugin>       </plugins>   </build>