How to Run/Debug a Ant Project in directly in tomcat through Eclipse?

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In this project ....

Web.xml is located under Project Folder > web > Web-INF > web.xml

This project is already created by or clients and we are maintaining it.

Actually we do the build using the build.xml script using ant, it will generate a app.war then we will deploy it in tomcat to run.

In the above process there is no way i can debug the code.

More info: This is not a struts project, it is Spring MVC project

i believe he is asking how to do that (running the project in eclipse) ? — yathirigan, Nov 09 '15 at 09:50
Possible duplicate of [Want an eclipse java project to run ant build files automatically](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5664669/want-an-eclipse-java-project-to-run-ant-build-files-automatically) — Jeba Prince, Feb 09 '17 at 12:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Why don't you add Ant plugin to eclipe and run it through eclipse?

Running Ant buildfiles

To run an Ant buildfile in the Workbench:

In one of the navigation views, select an XML file.
From the file's pop-up menu, select Run Ant.... The launch configuration dialog opens.
Select one or more targets from the Targets tab. The order in which you select the items is the order in which they will run. The order is displayed in the Target execution order box at the bottom of the tab. You can change the order of the targets by clicking the Order... button.
(Optional) Configure options on the other tabs. For example, on the Main tab, type any required arguments in the Arguments field.
Click Run.

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