Packaging a Waffle Web Application and deploying it toTomcat (using WTP)

This Tutorial will show you how to create a WAR file and deploy it application using Waffle,  Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) and Tomcat Web Server.

Main Learning's

• After following this tutorial you will learn how to:    
• Create a WAR file and deploy it on Tomcat
• Run the Waffle sample Web application  in Tomcat

Versions used:

• OS: Windows XP V1.6
• JDK version 1.5.0_12
• Apache Tomcat v 5.5.23
• WTP - Web Tools Platform All-In-One Packages - R2.0  (from June 26, 2007)
• Waffle 1.0-beta-1 (28 July 2007)

Assumptions:

• JDK is properly installed
• Tomcat is properly installed
• You are familiar with WTP
• You read the Hello Waffle tutorial

Tutorial Steps:

1. Create a WAR file for your web project
   1. helloWaffle > Export > WAR File
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   4. On Destination, select <tomcat_path>\webapps folder\helloWaffle.war
   5. E.g. C:\Program Files\apache-tomcat-5.5.23\webapps\helloWaffle\helloWaffle.war
   6. Click on Finish
2. Start Tomcat
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3. Check out your hello waffle at http://localhost:8080/helloWaffle/hello.action
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