How to create a Web Application Project with Java/Maven/Jetty or Tomcat

In this article, we create a simple web application with the Maven Archetype plugin. We’ll run this web application in a Servlet container named Jetty, add some dependencies, write simple Servlets, and generate a WAR file. At the end of this article, you will also be able to deploy the service in Tomcat.

System requirements

Creating the Web Service Step by Step

This section explains how to create this simple web project from an EMPTY folder.

Creating the Simple Web Project

To create your web application

$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.pengyifan.simpleweb \
      -DartifactId=simple-webapp \
      -Dpackage=com.pengyifan.simpleweb \
      -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp \
      -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT \
      -DinteractiveMode=false

...
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS

Once the Maven Archetype plugin creates the project, change the directory into the simple-webapp directory and take a look at the pom.xml. You should see the

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.pengyifan.simpleweb</groupId> <artifactId>simple-webapp</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <name>simple-webapp Maven Webapp</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>3.8.1</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <finalName>simple-webapp</finalName> </build> </project> read more