Here's a problem that has bugged me for some time and I just re-stumbled upon the solution. When I'm running Tomcat or GlassFish inside of Eclipse, I usually like to watch the log output in the console view. The problem I've had is that right as the good stuff starts to appear in the Console view, the Server view is brought to the forefront so I have to select the Console view with my mouse. When you're doing a lot of restarts or switching in and out of debug mode, this can be quite irritating.
To fix this, go to the Preferences dialog (Window -> Preferences) and select the top level Server option. In there you'll see that the only option is "Show Servers view when server state changes." De-selecting this option solved the problem.
It would be nice if there were a way to set this preference directly from the Servers view. I knew there was a way to do it and have done it before but I couldn't remember how.
To fix this, go to the Preferences dialog (Window -> Preferences) and select the top level Server option. In there you'll see that the only option is "Show Servers view when server state changes." De-selecting this option solved the problem.
It would be nice if there were a way to set this preference directly from the Servers view. I knew there was a way to do it and have done it before but I couldn't remember how.
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