I have installed Tomcat 7 server on Windows on port 8088.
Now I have added the server in Eclipse.
But I am not sure whether I need to keep the Tomcat running by going in the Tomcat directory or I have to close that and run from Eclipse?
And how will Eclipse know that I have setup the Tomcat on port 8088?
No you don’t need to keep tomcat running outside. You can run/stop it whenever you want from eclipse.
You will find project named
ServerorServers; depends on eclipse version; in your workspace; in which you have added tomcat. It has tomcat configuration file which tells eclipse how to manage tomcat. It has a file calledserver.xmlwhich contain port information that is on which port tomcat will run.