Connecting Tomcat server to Eclipse

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I am trying to use Tomcat 6.0 as a web development server within SpringSource Tool Suite 2.7.1. I create a runtime, download tomcat, create a server, etc as per these instructions http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-tomcat/index.html#N10148

When I try to run a web app on the server though I get the following error:

The archive: /Servers/Tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar which is referenced 
by the classpath, does not exist.

I know this bootstrap.jar file does exist in the exact place it says it should be yet it still causes an error. Any ideas?

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If you have unzipped downloaded Tomcat archive into Eclipse Servers folder, User Entries in classpath have relative path (e.g. /Servers/....) of bootstrap.jar and tomcat-juli.jar which path I guess is not accessible as a relative path.

Once I removed Tomcat installation directory (with files) outside Eclipse's Servers folder, delete the old configuration and re-add Tomcat, everything worked as expected.

I hope this helps narrow down the cause.

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