Tomcat in Intellij Idea Community Edition

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Viktoriia picture Viktoriia · Feb 26, 2014 · Viewed 124.3k times · Source

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

user7610 picture user7610 · Jul 8, 2016

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.

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