Why won the New Server Runtime dialog recognize my Linux installed version of Tomcat?
To support searching for Tomcat runtimes, the contents of each directory being tested is checked for a set of content that uniquely identifies the version of Tomcat. These sets are based on the standard zip or tar.gz installs from Apache. The packaged install for various versions of Linux (and even for other Operating Systems) might not quite match the expected set of files. This problem has been known to occur in WTP 1.5.x and earlier with Tomcat packages that install a version of Tomcat 5.0.x. When identifying Tomcat 5.0.x, a servlet-api.jar is expected to be present in the common/lib directory. The installation instead has a link named [servletapi].jar to provide the equivalent jar. To meet the verification requirement, you can create an empty jar file named servlet-api.jar in this directory. WTP 2.0.x and later was updated to also accept the presence of [servletapi].jar to satisfy the requirement.
