How to deploy to Tomcat from NetBeans?

Question

I\'ve added Tomcat in the \"Tools > Servers\" menu and as you can see it appears in the list of servers:

But when I try to run my project, I cannot select Tomcat! The dr

Answer 1

If you right-click the project, select Properties and go to Run, there should be a dropdown list of servers. Is that one empty as well?

Answer 2

One of the mistakes I was making when I got this problem was that I was trying to deploy EAR project to Tomcat. Tomcat isn't an application server. It is a web server. It worked when I deployed the only the Web project of the EAR to Tomcat. The ejb can only be deployed to an application server.
I hope this helps.

Answer 3

I had this exact same issue, when creating a default EE project in Netbeans it does a full EE spec which Tomcat doesn't fulfill.

I created manually because I couldn't find a good archetype, could you please post the place where you got the good Tomcat archetype?