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Deploying your first application to
WildFly 8
In order to test launch our first application, we will create a
HelloWorld
web project us-
ing Eclipse. The main part will be a
servlet
class, used to generate HTML markup. So,
launch Eclipse and choose to create a new web project by navigating to
File
|
New
|
Dy-
namic Web Project
. This is shown in the following screenshot:
Choose a name for your application and check the
Use default location
box if you want to
create your project within the same location of your Eclipse workspace. If you have cor-
rectly configured a new WildFly server in Eclipse, you should see the
WildFly 8.0
Runtime
option selected by default, and
Target Runtime
and
Default Configuration
for
WildFly 8.0 Runtime
preselected in the
Configuration
box.
Select
3.1
as the Dynamic web module version, which makes development easy by using
the Servlet 3.1 specifications, and also leave the
EAR membership
and
Add project to
working sets
checkboxes unselected.
Click on
Finish
to continue.
Now, let's add a quintessential simple servlet to our project, which merely dumps a
Hello
World
message as an HTML page. From the
File
menu, go to
New
|
Servlet
and enter a
meaningful name and package for your servlet, such as
TestServlet
as the name and
