java - What are the functions of "context root" and "content directory" in Eclipse?

Question

What are the functions of "context root" and "content directory" in Eclipse? Is
used by tomcat?

is used there

Answer 1

root represents: "localhost:xxx" is the project that accesses /tomcat/webapps/root/

Directory representative: "localhost:xxx/XXX" is the project that accesses /tomcat/webapps/XXX

Answer 2

Context root: compiled project name. Corresponds to Display-name.
Content directory: Project file root directory. Store the root of directories such as html/jsp/images. When accessing http://caiyongji.com/index.html, the corresponding access is to index.html under the Content directory, which means that the Content directory is the root of the website.

can be understood in a narrow sense as:

URL: ContextRoot/ContentDirectory/index.html