Was there something wrong with this question? Or the one about catching throwable, okay I might not be the most knowledgeable but I'm trying to help, in general.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Wesley Acheson <wesley.ache...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I think the documentation in tomcat 7 about building tomcat is > incorrect or out of date. > > I've tried to get it running in eclipse using the following steps. > > 1 Checkout from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk. This was > the location given to me on the mailing list. > > 2 Tried "ant download" as per > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/building.html#Building%20Tomcat. > Apparently there is no target called "download" > > 3 Tried the following ant targets in the following order > "download-compile" "download-test-compile", "download-dist", > "download-validate". Finally ant with no arguments. > > 4 Renamed "eclipse.project" and "eclipse.classpath" to ".project" and > ".eclipse". > > 5 Launched eclipse, added in classpath variables, as per documentation > > 6 I received an error that two jar files were missing > "c:\usr\share\java\wsdl4j-1.6.1\wsdl4j-1.6.1.jar" and > "c:\usr\share\java\jaxrpc-1.1-rc4\geronimo-spec-jaxrpc-1.1-rc4.jar" > > 7 Downloaded those two jar files from a maven repository and placed in > the set location. > > Now I'm stuck the instructions say 'enter > "org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina" as the main class, "start" as > program arguments, and "-Dcatalina.home=..." (with the name of your > build directory) as VM arguments.' > > STOP PRESS > > However there doesn't seem to be a main method in Catalina.java, I've > changed this to "org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap" is that > correct? It appears to launch. > > So there are the following definite problems with the documentation. > The main class is wrong. The ant targets are wrong. Possibly missing a > step for downloading jars (Though I suspect thats just a badly > configured classpath). > > Is this the "correct" way to run TC7? Do you want a bug on this? If > you let me know where the documentation is I'll enter a patch > (assuming documentation is in SVN). > > Regards, > > Wesley > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
