Compile Netbeans Web app with Java files (for deployment on XAMPP?)

Question

1. I have NetBeans web application, with HTML, JavaScript, CSS files... and I have some Java files which I manage to call in the web application with DirectWebRemoting.

2. It is using NetBean's Tomcat.

3. After "Clean and Build", I get a WAR file in dist/

4. I put this WAR file into XAMPP/tomcat/webapps directory

5. Run the application with XAMPP Tomcat, but then the Java files would not work using XAMPP's Tomcat.

Question: How do I compile the build, so that when I put into XAMPP it would work? This is so that everytime I run the application I don't need to turn NetBeans on.

Answer 1

Use the Tomcat Manager application to upload the war file, dropping them directly in the /webapps directory doesn't work for me sometimes too. Here's a link to know more about using Tomcat Manager Application