Jonathan Lalou's blog

(disclaimer: this “long tweet” has absolutely no interest, except playing with Tomcat 7 and “Leda”)

Friday is technical scouting… Today it will be a “Hello World!”.

• Get the code and project available on this page: http://www.mkyong.com/jsf2/jsf-2-0-hello-world-example/
• Get and install Tomcat 7 (very nice new home page)
• Get and install IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP “Leda”
• Launch IDEA
• Create a new project on existing sources, select the pom.xml of the project above.
• Build with Maven
• In IDEA:
• Run Configuration
• Tomcat Server
• Startup Page: http://localhost:8080/
• Deployment
• Add
• Artifact…
• select the WAR
• OK
• This launches Tomcat 7. You can connect http://localhost:8080/

Actually, I’m sure you can deploy with Tomcat-Maven plugin, ie without actual Tomcat install.