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This is an RFE. Build 20070423, WinXP - Download & Install tomcat using its installer build: http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/v5.5.17/bin/apache-tomcat-5.5.17.exe - Run NB 6 - Attempt to add Tomcat 5.5 via Runtime window - Set Catalina HOME to point to installed tomcat location - Get Warning message that catalina.bat & setclasspath.bat are missing (see attached image) Note: This is a little counter intuitive also because if I can't start/stop tomcat, why does it appear as a node in the Runtime window? Unless, I am missing something... Isn't it possible to resolve this automatically? Now, the user has to go and uninstall their tomcat build and download a zip version, which sounds a little inconvenient. Additionally, they'll have to copy all the modified tomcat resources (tomcat-users.xml, server.xml, etc.,) into the zipped version.
Created attachment 41507 [details] registering installed tomcat warning
this reads like a bug to me... but I will leave it as an RFE. correcting the component/subcomponent values.
In my opinion it's a deffect, because for example Eclipse works fine with installed Tomcat and it doesn't require any .bat files. It sounds stupid to use .bat files in a Java IDE.
Comparison with any other IDE is not a justification for changing issue type. Using bat files is an advantage because it starts tomcat in exactly the same way as you would start it. There is also a chance that any new version of server will work fine even with old IDE.
*** Bug 242593 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***