Setting up a web development environment with Eclipse

Verifying the installation

To check that the servlet runs properly, select the ServletTest servlet from the ServletTest project in the project navigator and select “Run As => Run on Server” from the context menu (Note: make sure to execute “Run on Server” on the servlet, not on the project – otherwise the URL which is opened in the browser does not refer to the servlet, but to the web content root directory):

The following dialog appears where the server which shall execute the servlet can be chosen. Lets try out Tomcat first:

Press “Next >” and make sure that the ServletTest servlet is configured to run on the server:

The servlet properly prints out the server information:

Now, try out the other application servers which we have configured earlier – simply choose a different server when running the servlet!