Deploying a WAR File
Deploying a WAR File
5. Click Open Project Folder.
6. In the Projects tab, right-click the hello1 project and select Build Project.
To build the hello1 application using the Ant utility, follow these steps:
1. In a terminal window, go to tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/web/hello1/.
2. Type ant. This command will spawn any necessary compilations, copy files to the
tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/web/hello1/build/ directory, create the WAR
file, and copy it to the tut-install/javaeetutorial5/examples/web/hello1/dist/
directory.
Deploying a WAR File
You can deploy a WAR file to the Application Server in a few ways:
Copying the WAR into the domain-dir/autodeploy/ directory.
Using the Admin Console.
By running asadmin or ant to deploy the WAR.
Using NetBeans IDE.
All these methods are described briefly in this chapter; however, throughout the tutorial, you
will use ant and NetBeans IDE for packaging and deploying.
Setting the Context Root
A context root identifies a web application in a Java EE server. You specify the context root when
you deploy a web module. A context root must start with a forward slash (/) and end with a
string.
In a packaged web module for deployment on the Application Server, the context root is stored
in sun-web.xml.
To edit the context root, do the following:
1. Expand your project tree in the Projects pane of NetBeans IDE.
2. Expand the Web Pages and WEB-INF nodes of your project.
3. Double-click sun-web.xml.
4. In the editor pane, click Edit As XML.
5. Edit the context root, which is enclosed by the context-root element.
Deploying a Packaged Web Module
If you have deployed the hello1 application, before proceeding with this section, undeploy the
application by following one of the procedures described in
Web Modules
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