Introduction

I got the source code of tomcat 8.0 , and compiled them by maven in Intellij IDEA 14.1.
Now, it can be used to import to intellij directly if you would like to read the source code .

Structure

• catalina-home : binary distribution file
• tomcat-code : source code which you can check out via svn
• tomcat-8.0-doc : full documentation (this directory is optional)
• PDF-resource : the important resource to study tomcat source code (this directory is optional)

Just the catalina-home and tomcat-code must exist

Run

• import into IDEA
• Find tomcat-code/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/Bootstrap.java
• Run main() method