testing a spring web app in eclipse without deploying it

Question

Hi, i am working on my first spring app and using tomcat to deploy and run it but the issue is everytime i make a change to it and build it again, it re-builds it into the tomcat server.

is their a way to test the compile and build of my spring app inside my eclipse IDE enviornment instead of always deploying it int the tomcat server?

right now my build script looks like this

{code}

<property name="src.dir" value="src"/>
<property name="web.dir" value="war"/>
<property name="build.dir" value="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/classes"/>
<property name="name" value="ZangV3Spring"/>

<path id="master-classpath">
    <fileset dir="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/lib">
        <include name="*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
    <!-- We need the servlet API classes: -->
    <!--  * for Tomcat 5/6 use servlet-api.jar -->
    <!--  * for other app servers - check the docs -->
    <fileset dir="${appserver.lib}">
        <include name="servlet*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
    <pathelement path="${build.dir}"/>
</path>

<target name="usage">
    <echo message=""/>
    <echo message="${name} build file"/>
    <echo message="-----------------------------------"/>
    <echo message=""/>
    <echo message="Available targets are:"/>
    <echo message=""/>
    <echo message="build     --> Build the application"/>
    <echo message="deploy    --> Deploy application as directory"/>
    <echo message="deploywar --> Deploy application as a WAR file"/>
    <echo message="install   --> Install application in Tomcat"/>
    <echo message="reload    --> Reload application in Tomcat"/>
    <echo message="start     --> Start Tomcat application"/>
    <echo message="stop      --> Stop Tomcat application"/>
    <echo message="list      --> List Tomcat applications"/>
    <echo message=""/>
</target>

<target name="build" description="Compile main source tree java files">
    <mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
    <javac destdir="${build.dir}" source="1.5" target="1.5" debug="true"
           deprecation="false" optimize="false" failonerror="true">
        <src path="${src.dir}"/>
        <classpath refid="master-classpath"/>
    </javac>
</target>

<target name="deploy" depends="build" description="Deploy application">
    <copy todir="${deploy.path}/${name}" preservelastmodified="true">
        <fileset dir="${web.dir}">
            <include name="**/*.*"/>
        </fileset>
    </copy>
</target>

<target name="deploywar" depends="build" description="Deploy application as a WAR file">
    <war destfile="${deploy.path}/${name}.war"
         webxml="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
        <fileset dir="${web.dir}">
            <include name="**/*.*"/>
        </fileset>
    </war>
    <copy todir="${deploy.path}" preservelastmodified="true">
        <fileset dir=".">
            <include name="*.war"/>
        </fileset>
    </copy>
</target>

 <path id="catalina-ant-classpath">
     <!-- We need the Catalina jars for Tomcat -->
     <!--  * for other app servers - check the docs -->
     <fileset dir="${appserver.lib}">
         <include name="catalina-ant.jar"/>
     </fileset>
 </path>

 <taskdef name="install" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask">
     <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath"/>
 </taskdef>
 <taskdef name="reload" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask">
     <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath"/>
 </taskdef>
 <taskdef name="list" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask">
     <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath"/>
 </taskdef>
 <taskdef name="start" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask">
     <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath"/>
 </taskdef>
 <taskdef name="stop" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask">
     <classpath refid="catalina-ant-classpath"/>
 </taskdef>

 <target name="install" description="Install application in Tomcat">
     <install url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
              username="${tomcat.manager.username}"
              password="${tomcat.manager.password}"
              path="/${name}"
              war="${name}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="reload" description="Reload application in Tomcat">
     <reload url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
              username="${tomcat.manager.username}"
              password="${tomcat.manager.password}"
              path="/${name}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="start" description="Start Tomcat application">
     <start url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
              username="${tomcat.manager.username}"
              password="${tomcat.manager.password}"
              path="/${name}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="stop" description="Stop Tomcat application">
     <stop url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
              username="${tomcat.manager.username}"
              password="${tomcat.manager.password}"
              path="/${name}"/>
 </target>

 <target name="list" description="List Tomcat applications">
     <list url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
              username="${tomcat.manager.username}"
              password="${tomcat.manager.password}"/>
 </target>

{code}

cheers in advance. Spring is awsome to work with by the way