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There is no installation required for static deployment of web applications as this is provided out of the box by Tomcat. Nor is any installation required for deployment functions with the Tomcat Manager, although some configuration is required as detailed in the Tomcat Manager manual. An installation is however required if you wish to use the Tomcat Client Deployer (TCD).
The TCD is not packaged with the Tomcat core distribution, and must therefore be downloaded separately from the Downloads area. The download is usually labeled apache-tomcat-8.0.x-deployer.
TCD has prerequisites of Apache Ant 1.6.2+ and a Java installation. Your environment should define an ANT_HOME environment value pointing to the root of your Ant installation, and a JAVA_HOME value pointing to your Java installation. Additionally, you should ensure Ant’s ant command, and the Java javac compiler command run from the command shell that your operating system provides.
- Download the TCD distribution
- The TCD package need not be extracted into any existing Tomcat installation, it can be extracted to any location.
- Read Using the Tomcat Client Deployer
