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 Undeploying Web Modules.

Deploying with the Admin Console

1. Expand the Applications node.

2. Select the Web Applications node.

3. Click the Deploy button.

4. Select the radio button labeled “Package file to be uploaded to the Application Server.”

5. Type the full path to the WAR file (or click on Browse to find it), and then click the OK button.

6. Click Next.

7. Type the application name.

8. Type the context root.

9. Select the Enabled box.

10. Click the Finish button.

Deploying with asadmin

To deploy a WAR with asadmin, open a terminal window or command prompt and execute

asadmin deploy full-path-to-war-file

Deploying with Ant

To deploy a WAR with the Ant tool, open a terminal window or command prompt in the directory where you built and packaged the WAR, and execute

ant deploy

Deploying with NetBeans IDE

To deploy a WAR with NetBeans IDE, do the following:

1. Select File->Open Project.

2. In the Open Project dialog, navigate to your project and open it.

3. In the Projects tab, right-click the project and select Undeploy and Deploy.