I am having trouble configuring my Eclipse EE to run Tomcat 6 (my company has not migrated to Tomcat 7 yet). I was trying to follow these instructions. I went into the servers tab in the bottom panel, hit New->Server, then chose Apache->Tomcat 6. Then I went through a succession of the following screens:
and finally arrived to the error message:
Here are the contents of my Tomcat conf dir (C:\home\SFTWR\tomcat6\conf):
catalina.policy catalina.properties context.xml logging.properties server.xml web.xml wrapper.properties Any suggestion what may be wrong? It runs fine when running standalone and I can deploy apps from Eclipse but I would like to be able to run in in Eclipse for debugging purposes.
UPDATE:
Despite the error message, I noticed that the server was indeed registered, however, not functional -- when I tried to hit "Start", I got an error popup listing two problems:
Publishing to localhost (Details: Cannot publish to the server because it is missing its runtime environment.)
Starting localhost (Details: An internal error occurred during: "Starting localhost". java.lang.NullPointerException)
The detailed exception stack trace is as follows:
org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Could not load the Tomcat server configuration at \Servers\localhost-config. The configuration may be corrupt or incomplete. at org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.internal.Tomcat60Configuration.load(Tomcat60Configuration.java:313) at org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.internal.TomcatServer.getTomcatConfiguration(TomcatServer.java:124) at org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.internal.TomcatServerBehaviour.getTomcatConfiguration(TomcatServerBehaviour.java:80) at org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.internal.TomcatServerBehaviour.setupLaunch(TomcatServerBehaviour.java:496) at org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.core.internal.TomcatLaunchConfigurationDelegate.launch(TomcatLaunchConfigurationDelegate.java:96) at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:854) at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:703) at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:696) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.startImpl2(Server.java:3402) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.startImpl(Server.java:3340) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server$StartJob.run(Server.java:363) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54) 
