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How to deploy a Spring MVC Maven project from Eclipse to an existing Glassfish server

I've got a Spring MVC Maven project written in Eclipse that was verified as working with an Apache Tomcat 7 as the web container.
I am trying to transfer it to my "server" pc where I want to deploy it to the my existing glassfish (4.1) server as the web container.
I am having a very hard time finding a big enough partial answer to get the rest of the way.
I have tried to just export the .war file to the autodeploy folder which resulted in a "deployfailed" file.
I have tried to setup a "new server" using glassfish tools, but I realized that this is creating a new server and the existing server blocks the socket connection.
Eclipse doesn't see to have standard web commands like build, clean or deploy, but I would happily settle for advice on how to tell it to deploy to the existing glassfish server similar to how I was able to with tomcat at my training location.

Check this answer. Then follow the following steps.
Go to the project in the Project Explorer.
Select the web project.
Right click and select "Run As", you will see glashfish. Select it and click run.

Run spring project in eclipse

I am new in spring.I imported one spring project in eclipse and try to run with apache tomcat but it is not running.There is no main method in project.It contains only controllers and models and one jsp page.When i tried to run as a java application is shows below dialog. Please help me.I tried all in google for how to run spring project but i can't understand.Please tell me how to do?

Assuming you have added tomcat to your eclipse.
If your project is pure java project then it will not show you the run on server option in eclipe. You need to change project facet and add dynamic web module to it then you can run it on tomcat server from eclipse.Basically project needs to be web project.
After doing above if it gives error or do not run properly, check your project deployment assembly and add projects webapps folder in eclipse.

you need to have a tomcat installed in your eclipse and run it on the server.
Here is a tutorial to do this

You need to install the Web Tools Platform, which has support for the usual Web-application tools.

How to deploy Java project to Tomcat

I have downloaded a sample extjs+mysql+spring web project (link) with a java backend that I'd like to set up locally on my machine. I have installed Tomcat server, and MySQL DB but it's my first time ever with a java-based web application and I have troubles setting it up. Does it require any modifications ? I thought that .jsp files should be included there, but I can only see .java sources. Do I need to build it before it's ready for deployment ? Any help appreciated.

This is an Eclipse project so you'd need to run it from within Eclipse.
Download Eclipse
Open the project in it
Define a Tomcat container in your Servers tab
Drag and drop the project onto the newly defined Tomcat
Run it

if your are using eclipse IDE for development, create a project in eclipse,
run as "run on server" , and set the running server (eg TOMCAT 7).
and thats it,,
make sure, you correctly setup spring project in IDE with all needed jar files .

xampp and tomcat and jsp oh my.. how do i tell if its working

Ok recently installed a wamp xammp to be specific.. I have a requirment to use jsp for some server side communications instead of other stuff like php. My main issue is not knowing jsp enough or java for that matter to know whether or not what I'm trying to do is working or if its not and if its not is it cause of the code I'm tempting to try which is a copy and paste solution via Google for "jsp hello world". Xampp reports tomcat as active and running but I copy and paste the jsp code I find to see if it works and when I go to it in my browser I just see the source as if I were looking at it in notepad, so anyone got some advice? This is a stock install if the latest xammp.. the server runs fine other wise php and mysql included.

Make sure that the file has the .jsp extension and that it's been placed in a subfolder of /xampp/tomcat/webapps (and thus not there where you usually drop PHP files).
See also:
Youtube video tutorial - Integrating Tomcat with Apache using XAMPP

Install NetBeans IDE and follow this tutorial: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/quickstart-webapps.html (before running application in this tutorial you must stop your XAMPP Tomcat).
Or if you want to use your XAMPP Tomcat, integrate it with NetBeans, create a web project using that tutorial, create a WAR file (by clicking on button Clean and Build) - this will create a WAR file in your project directory in directory "dist" and then copy this WAR file to your XAMPP Tomcat into directory webapps.
Start small, use NetBeans IDE, read some tutorials and experiment. Later you can switch to Eclipse IDE (IMHO buch better IDE, but requires much more customization than NetBeans).
Dont use Notepad.

what are the steps in order to run java enterprise application

Sorry for this simple questions but i am too much confused with how to run java application. Whenever i ask some each one tells his own tools to proceed and i have learn that thing.
So provided i have simple basic eclipse with no plugin and i have downloaded the sample web application which uses spring , hibernate , mysql ,
The folder structure of app is
.setting
src--main,test
target
.classpath
.project
Now i want to run this using localhost in browser
what thing i need to do. i will tell from my knowledge and u guys can correct it
i don't want to use STS or install any plugin in eclipse.
I imported the project from eclipse
menu and i appeared on left window
As it uses spring do i have to add
the spring jar files in build path
of spring. or anything else
Same for hibernate jar files
Fior simple java app i used to
compile the class which contain the
void main function but i have no
idea which file to compile to run
this app
I added the mysql connector in build
path to connect with mysql in simple
java app. will same thing work here?
I knoow we need web server for that.
so if i want to install glass fish
server then how will i connect it to eclispe or that app. will tomcat be
ok than glass fish??? i know tthere
is eclispe ide with embedded glass
fish but i want integrate evrything
myself
IN browser i which url i need to use
to see that app
I don't know how did maven , appfuse fit in here. Can i run app without maven if yes then what does maven really do , i mean does it compile the java files or what. If i require maven then
Do i need to install it separately i
mean exe file or jar file
how to link with eclipse
I have read about building with
maven , what will ahppen after
building i mean what is the result
of building , will i see browser
after building or after building
there are some steps further. do
maven needs to link with web server
installed
sorry for basics questions but i am confused with all new trminology

Building a webapp is complicated. I will try and address your specific questions.
Utimately you don't need Maven or Appfuse, both can be very helpful.
Maven is a build tool. Maven and Eclipse do some similar tasks. Both can compile your code and manage a classpath. Maven handles a lot of things out of the box that Eclipse can't do by default. Maven can manage dependencies (i.e. download the spring jars for you) and create complex build processes.
If you are unfamiliar with Maven and creating a build file from scratch then it probably won't be much help. If you have a pom.xml (Maven build file) from somewhere else then Maven can be a big help. The result of Maven depends on how your build file is structured. The result is most often either a .war file (described below as step 5) or that your application is deployed directly to your web server (described below as step 6).
Appfuse is also not mandatory but can be useful. Appfuse will create a skeleton project for you. When it does this it will create a pom.xml (Maven build file) to automatically build your project. Appfuse by itself doesn't do anything other than help get projects started. Most people don't start building web apps from scratch anymore since getting the directory structure right and creating the build file can be a lot of work and it's easy to make mistakes. A tool similar to Appfuse is Spring Roo.
Tomcat, Glassfish, Jetty, and JBoss are web servers. They are also often called Servlet Containers which is just another name for a web server that hosts servlets in a certain fashion. Any of them will work for your project, they all have different learning curves. Integrating them into Eclipse may work for you, when I got started I found it was easier (although a little slower) to keep them separate.
In the JDK there is an interface named javax.servlet.Servlet. This is the interface that the entry class of your web application must implement. In particular the method service(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res) is called every time there is a request for a URL. If you want your web application to respond to HTTP it may be simpler to extend the abstract class HttpServlet (which implements Servlet) instead. Most libraries (i.e. Spring web framework) have their own implementations of Servlet that are the entry point to the library.
I will now describe the basic process for building a web application. This is a complicated process and most people eventually automate it with Maven. I do not suggest trying to manually walk through the process yourself it can be very complicated but you can if you want. I am going to assume that you are placing all of your built files in a folder named $BUILD
Compile your source code. The compiled classes need to end up in a folder called $BUILD/WEB-INF/classes
Place all your jar files (external libraries) in a folder named $BUILD/WEB-INF/lib
Create a deployment descriptor, this is a file that tells your web server how to deploy your code. The most important thing in this file is a mapping from URLs to Java classes that implement Servlet. It should be named web.xml and put in $BUILD/WEB-INF
jar up the all this code with the root of the jar being at $BUILD. You could call this code application.jar
Rename the jar file extension to war. A war file is simply a jar file that has the required WEB-INF directory inside of it.
Deploy this war file to your web server (Tomcat/JBoss/Jetty/Glassfish/etc.), the process for doing this is different for each web server
That is the basics of web application deployment. Your web server will extract the war file and load all of the jars in the lib folder into the classpath. It will then take any URL requests it receives and send them to the appropriate Servlet implementations declared in your deployment descriptor.
As you can see this is not a simple process. This is the reason tools like Appfuse and Roo exist. They try and give you a starting point which does all of this basic stuff for you. If you are having trouble I would suggest trying again from scratch with Appfuse/Roo. As you start to get the hang of things I would also suggest learning more about Maven (or Ivy+Ant) to handle dependencies for you.

You should download the Java EE edition of Eclipse - it contains the code needed to work with enterprise applications.
You will also need an enterprise server (like JBoss or Glassfish) and the corresponding server adapter, which is a bit much for a beginner.
The easiest way to get started is to download Netbeans with Glassfish and use that instead - at least for now - as everything is configured correctly and it is very fast to get started! When you are more familiar with the way things work, you can switch back to Eclipse if you want to.