How to find admin console in Apache Tomcat?

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I have always used WebSphere, where we can set data source and have buses and queues. How to find those features in Apache Tomcat, if possible?

Check this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9491905/how-do-i-use-apache-tomcat-7-built-in-host-manager-gui — Rahul Tripathi, Dec 17 '15 at 10:01

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 17 '15 at 10:18

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Tomcat is a lightweight servlet server. In order to add some of JEE features like JMS provider, you have to integrate a third party solution like ActiveMQ and declare your resources (datasources, queues or topics) in context.xml file like this :

<Resource name="jms/ConnectionFactory" auth="Container"
            type="org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory"/>

you can also use TomEE, which is a tomcat with JEE features. I think it's more suitable for you.

Hope it helped

answered Dec 17 '15 at 10:18

Zava

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how does this answer relate to the question? – WeMakeSoftware Dec 17 '15 at 12:31
If you have read the whole question, you would have seen that the answer is a solution. You must read the description and not just the title ! It's abvious ! – Zava Dec 17 '15 at 12:36

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '15 at 09:59

Tomcat is not a full-blown application server.

You can deploy / undeploy applications via tomcat.url:8080/manager

manager itself is a webapplication which ships with default installation.

To access it you will need to modify some config files. A complete guide for this can be found here

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '15 at 12:02

Unfortunately you are down to manually editing xml files.

If you considering switching to Apache Tomcat, try WebSphere Liberty Profile. It is as lightweight as Tomcat, but full Java EE 7 compatible, and have nice configuration editor in Eclipse provided by WebSphere Developer Tools plugin, so no looking for and typing xml configs.

How to find admin console in Apache Tomcat?

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