start-tomcat and stop-tomcat launch configurations are provided inres/ide-support/eclipse and will be available in the Run->Run Configurationsdialog. Use these to start and stop Tomcat from Eclipse.If you want to configure these yourself (or are using a different IDE)then use org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap as the main class,start/stop etc. as program arguments, and specify -Dcatalina.home=...(with the name of your build directory) as VM arguments.