I am just starting out with programming a tomcat server in java, and have installed eclipse's Web Tools Platform, but when I try to create a Dynamic Web Project, It wants me to specify an installation of Tomcat on my own machine. Is it necessary, other than to run the project, as the server to really use it is online? If it's not, any way I can bypass this problem?
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