HI, As a completely 'left-field' thought and apologies if this next statement is completely naive, if I started a clean Maven project, copied across all the sources for Tomcat and then use NetBeans to add dependencies as required, could that work? I am willing to give it a try as I don't need to deploy my development version of Tomcat, I just need to be able to run it within NetBeans.
Once I have finished any changes, I can export the amended sources to the downloaded copy from github, re-apply the changes (they will always be minor!) and then use the ant build script from the CMD to deploy the finished version so I can test it in place of the release version I am currently using for my other web development. Which brings me back to a question raised earlier, confirmation of which source file it is that launches Tomcat to display the CMD like monitor as there are 15 "main" entry points within the Tomcat sources. I am assuming that it is the one in Tomcat.java, which interestingly has the comment /** * Main executable method for use with a Maven packager. * @param args the command line arguments * @throws Exception if an error occurs */ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { indicating that perhaps Tomcat has been built using Maven! John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org