><a href="#Building_with_other_IDEs">Building with other IDEs</a></li></ul>
</div><h3 id="Introduction">Introduction</h3><div class="text">

<p>
Building Apache Tomcat from source is very easy, and is the first step to
contributing to Tomcat. The complete and comprehensive instructions are
provided in the file <a href="BUILDING.txt">BUILDING.txt</a>.
The following is a quick step by step guide.
</p>

</div><h3 id="Download_a_Java_Development_Kit_(JDK)_version_7">Download a Java Development Kit (JDK) version