Building and Deploying timezone1

For the tutorial applications, we rely on Ant as a build tool and Tomcat 6 as the container to run the application. To build a .war file successfully, complete the following steps:

1. Ensure that Tomcat 6 is running.

2. Use ant clean to clean up the source directory of the application.

3. To compile the source code and generate a .war file with all the required resources, in the console, type:
ant

By default, the .war file created is for Tomcat 6. The .war file will be created in the dist directory at the root level of the application.

4. To deploy the .war file to Tomcat 6, copy the timezone1.war file into the Tomcat6 webapps directory.

5. To interact with the application, point your web browser at the following URL, making adjustments for your environment as required. For example, port 8080 is the default port that Tomcat uses, but if you have changed this in your installation, change the URL accordingly.

http://localhost:8080/timezone1

If all goes well, you should see the first incarnation of the TimeZone application running in your browser. Click a different time zone on the map to update the time and time zone information in the top right of the table.

Note: If you would like to deploy the .war file to an application server other than Tomcat 6 (JBoss4.2, for example), you need to explicitly refer to a different ant target when building the .war file. Use ant help to list the available targets for this tutorial.

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