Deploying our project
We successfully created the project in the last section, so you might be curious to know what would happen if we run our project now. As our project is a web project, we need a web server to run it.
Time for action - running the project
As we have already configured the Tomcat web server in our STS, let's use Tomcat to deploy and run our project:
- Right-click on your project from Package Explorer and navigate to Run As | Run on Server.
- A server selection window will appear with all the available servers listed; just select the server that we have configured, Tomcat v8.0.
- At the bottom of the window, you can see a checkbox with the caption that says Always use this server when running this project; select this checkbox and enter ...
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