Run Gradle webapp in NetBeans'(8.0) tomcat?

Question

There's similar question: gradle-copy-war-to-tomcat-directory to use gradle-tomcat-plugin .

Is it possible not to use that plugin, but use the NetBeans' default installed tomcat?

I want to just right click on the project, and select 'Run' to run the project just like that NetBeans Web Application runs in NetBeans' tomcat.

or should I switch to maven? Because it looks like more fit into NetBeans?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can try to install core Gradle plugin for NetBeans ( https://github.com/kelemen/netbeans-gradle-project ) and its addition for Java EE projects - https://github.com/hildo/netbeans-gradle-javaee-project . Both are available from https://github.com/hildo/netbeans-gradle-javaee-project so you should see them in Plugin manager in your IDE.

Basic Gradle support works but I haven't tried the Java EE functionality so I cannot comment how much help you will get with deployment to Tomcat. You can create an action/shortcut to run a task in your Gradle build to deploy your application.