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Introduction
WO developers have been able to deploy their applications as a WAR bundle in a J2EE container since WO 5.1, and as an independent SSDD (Servlet Single Directory Deployment) bundle since WO 5.2. There is some documentation out there already for preparing your apps for this if you use XCode, but more and more developers are ditching that in favor of the vastly superior (in my opinion) Eclipse/WOLips IDE. For more information on XCode, start here. This article is all about how to do things in Eclipse, and then as a bonus, how to create a deploy a project wonder application so that it runs in tomcat. I had a fairly miserable time figuring all of this out, but there's really not that much too it once you have all of the information in one place. Read on...
Prerequisites
You really ought to know how to create a regular standalone webobjects application before you dive into this article. It helps if you understand the basic servlet container file structure, and you should also have the container of your choice installed. I'm using Tomcat 5.5.9.
Getting Started
For an example of how this works, we're going to do the most boring little hello world app imaginable from scratch. Don't fret though, you can apply the same set of changes to any existing app and it should work. After getting Hello World working, I applied the changes described here to a fairly complex existing project full of Ajax and project wonder fanciness, and it worked just as expected.
Creating Hello World
First create you hello world just like you would In this tutorial.