The Web Application Wizard helps you create a web component, a Web ARchive (.WAR) file, and a from the information that you enter in the first four screens of the wizard. You select a WAR file to contain the component and then identify the servlet class, JSP file or a web service endpoint. It bundles the web component into the Web Archive (.WAR) file and prepares it for deployment on the server according to the settings in the generated deployment descriptor.
Already created WARs and web components may be added to an application by using the WAR button in the second group of buttons on the tool bar of the primary screen of Deployment Tool. Update and deployment of the application are accomplished using the third set of buttons on the toolbar. Finally, the correctness of the components and files of the application may be checked before deployment by the verifier and clone inspector buttons on the tool bar.
At any point while using the Wizard, you may do any of the following:
The later screens of the Wizard offers the options to
After Finish has been clicked, the deployment descriptor may be reviewed at any time by selecting the web
component or WAR file from Deployment Tool tree and choosing Descriptor View from the Tools menu.