Apache Tomcat 9 (9.0.44) - Building Tomcat Apache Tomcat 9 Version 9.0.44, Mar 4 2021 Links Docs Home FAQ User Comments User Guide 1) Introduction 2) Setup 3) First webapp 4) Deployer 5) Manager 6) Host Manager 7) Realms and AAA 8) Security Manager 9) JNDI Resources 10) JDBC DataSources 11) Classloading 12) JSPs 13) SSL/TLS 14) SSI 15) CGI 16) Proxy Support 17) MBeans Descriptors 18) Default Servlet 19) Clustering 20) Load Balancer 21) Connectors 22) Monitoring and Management 23) Logging 24) APR/Native 25) Virtual Hosting 26) Advanced IO 27) Mavenized 28) Security Considerations 29) Windows Service 30) Windows Authentication 31) Tomcat's JDBC Pool 32) WebSocket 33) Rewrite 34) CDI 2 and JAX-RS 35) AOT/GraalVM Support Reference Release Notes Configuration Tomcat Javadocs Servlet 4.0 Javadocs JSP 2.3 Javadocs EL 3.0 Javadocs WebSocket 1.1 Javadocs JASPIC 1.1 Javadocs Common Annotations 1.3 Javadocs JK 1.2 Documentation Apache Tomcat Development Building Changelog Status Developers Architecture Tribes Building Tomcat Table of Contents Introduction Download a Java Development Kit (JDK) version 8 Install Apache Ant 1.9.8 or later Checkout or obtain the Tomcat source code Configure download area Building Tomcat Building with Eclipse Building with other IDEs Introduction Building Apache Tomcat from source is very easy, and is the first step to contributing to Tomcat. The complete and comprehensive instructions are provided in the file BUILDING.txt. The following is a quick step by step guide. Download a Java Development Kit (JDK) version 8 Building Apache Tomcat requires a JDK (version 8) to be installed. You can download one from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html http://openjdk.java.net/install/index.html or another JDK vendor. IMPORTANT: Set an environment variable JAVA_HOME to the pathname of the directory into which you installed the JDK release. Install Apache Ant 1.9.8 or later Download a binary distribution of Ant 1.9.8 or later from here. Unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location so that the Ant release resides in its own directory (conventionally named apache-ant-1.9.x). For the remainder of this guide, the symbolic name ${ant.home} is used to refer to the full pathname of the Ant installation directory. IMPORTANT: Create an ANT_HOME environment variable to point the directory ${ant.home}, and modify the PATH environment variable to include directory ${ant.home}/bin in its list. This makes the ant command line script available, which will be used to actually perform the build. Checkout or obtain the Tomcat source code Tomcat SVN repository URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/ Tomcat source packages: https://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi. Checkout the source using SVN, selecting a tag for released version or trunk for the current development code, or download and unpack a source package. For the remainder of this guide, the symbolic name ${tomcat.source} is used to refer to the location where the source has been placed. Configure download area Building Tomcat involves downloading a number of libraries that it depends on. It is strongly recommended to configure download area for those libraries. By default the build is configured to download the dependencies into the ${user.home}/tomcat-build-libs directory. You can change this (see below) but it must be an absolute path. The build is controlled by creating a ${tomcat.source}/build.properties file. It can be used to redefine any property that is present in build.properties.default and build.xml files. The build.properties file does not exist by default. You have to create it. The download area is defined by property base.path. For example: # ----- Default Base Path for Dependent Packages -----
# Replace this path with the directory path where
# dependencies binaries should be downloaded.
base.path=/home/me/some-place-to-download-to Different versions of Tomcat are allowed to share the same download area. Another example: base.path=${user.dir}/../libraries-tomcat9.0 Users who access the Internet through a proxy must use the properties file to indicate to Ant the proxy configuration: # ----- Proxy setup -----
proxy.host=proxy.domain
proxy.port=8080
proxy.use=on Building Tomcat Use the following commands to build Tomcat: cd ${tomcat.source} ant Once the build has completed successfully, a usable Tomcat installation will have been produced in the ${tomcat.source}/output/build directory, and can be started and stopped with the usual scripts. Building with Eclipse IMPORTANT: This is not a supported means of building Tomcat; this information is provided without warranty :-). The only supported means of building Tomcat is with the Ant build described above. However, some developers like to work on Java code with a Java IDE, and the following steps have been used by some developers. NOTE: This will not let you build everything under Eclipse; the build process requires use of Ant for the many stages that aren't simple Java compilations. However, it will allow you to view and edit the Java code, get warnings, reformat code, perform refactorings, run Tomcat under the IDE, and so on. WARNING: Do not forget to create and configure ${tomcat.source}/build.properties file as described above before running any Ant targets. Sample Eclipse project files and launch targets are provided in the res/ide-support/eclipse directory of the source tree. The instructions below will automatically copy these into the required locations. An Ant target is provided as a convenience to download all binary dependencies, and to create the Eclipse project and classpath files in the root of the source tree. cd ${tomcat.source} ant ide-eclipse Start Eclipse and create a new Workspace. Open the Preferences dialog and then select Java->Build Path->Classpath Variables to add two new Classpath Variables: TOMCAT_LIBS_BASE The same location as the base.path setting in build.properties, where the binary dependencies have been downloaded ANT_HOME the base path of Ant 1.9.8 or later Use File->Import and choose Existing Projects into Workspace. From there choose the root directory of the Tomcat source tree (${tomcat.source}) and import the Tomcat project located there. start-tomcat and stop-tomcat launch configurations are provided in res/ide-support/eclipse and will be available in the Run->Run Configurations dialog. Use these to start and stop Tomcat from Eclipse. If you want to configure these yourself (or are using a different IDE) then use org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap as the main class, start/stop etc. as program arguments, and specify -Dcatalina.home=... (with the name of your build directory) as VM arguments. Tweaking a few formatting preferences will make it much easier to keep consistent with Tomcat coding conventions (and have your contributions accepted): Java -> Code Style -> Formatter -> Edit... Tab policy: Spaces only Tab and Indentation size: 4 General -> Editors -> Text Editors Displayed tab width: 2 Insert spaces for tabs Show whitespace characters (optional) XML -> XML Files -> Editor Indent using spaces Indentation size: 2 Ant -> Editor -> Formatter Tab size: 2 Use tab character instead of spaces: unchecked The recommended configuration of Compiler Warnings is documented in res/ide-support/eclipse/java-compiler-errors-warnings.txt file. Building with other IDEs The same general approach should work for most IDEs; it has been reported to work in IntelliJ IDEA, for example. Copyright © 1999-2021, The Apache Software Foundation
