I am trying to use Tomcat 6 from within the IDE Netbeans 6.5 just as delivered by Fedora 11 distribution.

So I added a Tomcat 6 server trough Netbeans GUI : Server > Add server.
This with /usr/share/tomcat6 as Catalina base because /usr/share/tomcat6 is the Fedora 11 location for tomcat 6 rpm installation.

First of all :
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I had a : "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/juli/logging/LogFactory"

This could be solved by :
-Unjar the /usr/share/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap-6.0.18.jar
-Edit the MANIFEST.MF and add the following line : " Class-Path:  bootstrap.jar tomcat-juli.jar "
Thanks to Otto42 last comment on page at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-189099.html
(For info, a Class-Path line exist in Windows package. Why such a difference)

But then,
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When i tried to start again, the following new exceptions appeared :

java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat6/logs/catalina.2009-09-20.log (Permission denied)
...
java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat6/logs/localhost.2009-09-20.log (Permission denied)
...
java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat6/logs/manager.2009-09-20.log (Permission denied)
...
java.util.logging.ErrorManager: 4
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat6/logs/host-manager.2009-09-20.log (Permission denied)
...
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/share/tomcat6/conf/tomcat-users.xml (Permission denied)
...
Sep 20, 2009 2:53:06 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 105 ms
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This finished with a pop up window with message "Tomcat failed to start".

I tried to solve the permission problem with :
chown -R root:tomcat /usr/share/tomcat6/
so that tomcat group gains access instead of root initialy.

Permissions in /usr/share/tomcat6/ looks like that :
drwxr-xr-x.   4 root tomcat 4.0K 2009-09-09 22:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x. 222 root root    12K 2009-09-08 19:50 ../
drwxr-xr-x.   2 root tomcat 4.0K 2009-09-17 23:07 bin/
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root tomcat   12 2009-09-08 19:50 conf -> /etc/tomcat6/
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root tomcat   23 2009-09-08 19:50 lib -> /usr/share/java/tomcat6/
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root tomcat   16 2009-09-08 19:50 logs -> /var/log/tomcat6/
drwxr-xr-x.   4 root tomcat 4.0K 2009-09-08 23:34 src/
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root tomcat   23 2009-09-08 19:50 temp -> /var/cache/tomcat6/temp/
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root tomcat   24 2009-09-08 19:50 webapps -> /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root tomcat   23 2009-09-08 19:50 work -> /var/cache/tomcat6/work/

but without any success !

Using tomcat standalone with "/etc/rc.d/init.d/tomcat6 start" is OK.

Could you please help to improve tomcat-netbeans-fedora integration ?

Technical infos :
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-java version "1.6.0_0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.6) (fedora-29.b16.fc11-i386)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)
-javac 1.6.0_0
-tomcat6-6.0.18-9.2.fc11.rpm
-netbeans-6.5-3.fc11.rpm
-Linux 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 #1 SMP