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I am new to Java and using Java 7. I have installed NetBeans 7.1 and opened a web project with default settings. Following image shows the settings. Even though Tomcat is pre-installed it is not showing the version. I need to buy a host for web application so I need to know which Tomcat version I have to get. So, it seems like I have Java 7 and Java EE 6, and which Tomcat version is suitable?

Please note I didn't install Tomcat. It is built-in in NetBeans and only have to activate

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  • It seems to me that you are confusing Java (SE) 7 (SE = Standard Edition) with JavaEE (Enterprise Edition). The JavaEE 7 spec was only finalized last month IIRC, so tools and platforms probably don't support it yet. There is however no problem to run JavaEE 6 on Java 7 . Commented May 19, 2013 at 15:37
  • @MarkRotteveel: Thank you for the reply. So the TommCat version is 7 right? Commented May 19, 2013 at 17:34
  • @Soldier Tomcat is not fully compliant Java EE Application Server. It is a Servlet/JSP container (read here: Difference between an application server and a servlet container? and also here). See the following page for the information related to Tomcat versions and the supported Servlet versions: Apache Tomcat Versions Commented Jun 14, 2013 at 16:42

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Go to the TOMCAT_HOME/bin directory and look for the script named "version.sh".

For Java 7 suitable Tomcat version is 7

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That folder is not there because I didn't install tomcat. It came built-in in netbeans
@Soldier Check out the following NetBeans 7.1 installation instructions. There see the table describing the default installation locations for the bundled Tomcat. And in your Tomcat installation directory find bin and there will be version.sh (for Linux/Unix/OS X) and version.bat (for Windows). And by the way NetBeans 7.3.1 is already out, with the support of recently launched Java EE 7
+1 for the right solution. As a side note, there is also version.bat in case it is Windows. And to be correct, it is not which Tomcat for Java, but which Java JRE version to choose for Tomcat (i.e. to be able to run Tomcat). For instance, Apache Tomcat 7.0 requires a Java Standard Edition RuntimeEnvironment (JRE) version 6 or later (read here: RUNNING.txt)
Netbeans supports Tomcat 7.0.34.
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Its better and suggested that you configure a local installed Tomcat address for netbeans.
And a suitable version is 7.0.23 or 7.0.40

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