The Servers node in the Services window and its subnodes represent the Tomcat Web Server, its instances, and the contexts that have been deployed by an instance to the server. If you right-click a node and display its contextual menu, you see a list of menu items that enable you to work with this node.
To view the Tomcat Web Server in the IDE:
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In the Projects and Files windows, the Tomcat context descriptor node
![]() The context.xml file is used for setting a web application context path and for advanced web application configuration. For simple web applications, you do not need to edit the context.xml file because you use the WEB-INF property sheet to set the context path and the deployment descriptor (web.xml) to configure the web application. The IDE maintains the context element's path attribute automatically when you edit the Context Path in the WEB-INF properties sheet. If you update the context path in one place, the IDE updates the value in the other place. You can use the context.xml file to make the following settings:
The context.xml file represents the server.xml context element. Unlike Tomcat 4, use of the server.xml context element is not recommended for Tomcat 5. Instead, the recommendation is to specify the context information in a standalone context.xml file in the META-INF directory. For more information about the context.xml configuration, see: |