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How do I go from embedded Jetty web project to standalone server?

I build restful web service using maven on Eclipse and test with embedded server. All of this succeeds, now I want to deploy on a standalone Jetty server.
I was able to get Jetty running but when I go http://host:8080/my-war-file/ I see only directory with META-INF and WEB-INF, which Jetty thinks are both empty.
I do not believe there is a problem with my war file
/my-war-file
/META-INF
/WEB-INF
/classes
/lib
web.xml
How can I access resource classes through browser running Jetty standalone?

How to deploy Java/Spring application on my own system in Apache tomcat server.?

Hello all master minds,
I have created a java spring application in eclipse with mysql db.
Now I can run this application using >Run on server in eclipse,but I want to know how to deploy this application on my own laptop(windows 7).
I have already configured server,by localhost://8080 I can see Apache tomcat is configured.
Give me simple steps so that i can just run that software using browser via its link like
http://localhost:8080/PMS
PMS is my project name.
Thanks in advance.

You can install tomcat-manager in order to deploy your war using a web interface: Tomcat 7 manager
Another option is to copy your war file into tomcat webapps folder. Your container will auto deploy your war: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/appdev/deployment.html#Deployment_With_Tomcat.

The easiest way, since you are using eclipse is to just export your project as war and then put that war (naming it PMS) in webapps directory in your tomcat.
Once started, Tomcat will deploy that war on http://localhost:8080/PMS

You have to do the following steps:
Right click on project>> Export (Export as WAR file).
or if you are using a maven project then you can give a maven build.
Copy that WAR file, (you will get that war file inside the project folder in your workspace) to the tomcat_Installed_Folder/ webapps
Inorder to deploy the app from outside eclipse,
goto tomcat_Installed_Folder/bin
and double click on startup.bat
then you could see a console.
For detailed logs of deployment, goto tomcat_Installed_Folder/logs
ALL THE BEST :)

Deploying Spring MVC project

I've developed a small MVC project using Spring MVC, Hibernate, MySQL, Maven and Tomcat. I can run and test the application (locally) smoothly.
Now I need to publish/deploy this project on an (online) server that have only Tomcat installed on it. How can I publish/deploy the project online? Is there any special build I should do? What files I shall upload and to where?

There are several types of development options available.
For development on localhost EAR (Exploded ARchive) type of project is usually used (because you can easily make hot deploy on servery). But for production WAR (Web ARchive) is used (basically it's the same EAR archive, but compressed using ZIP algorithm).
If you want to deploy your project to remote Tomcat server then make your project as WAR archive and upload it to Tomcat's webapps directory. Then you might need to restart Tomcat. But it's manual way of deploying.
Better option is to use automated build tools (like Maven) which can compile your project, run unit tests, deploy on web server (local or remote) etc.
This one is a great example of how to deploy your project on Tomcat server by using Maven's tomcat-maven-plugin: http://www.mkyong.com/maven/how-to-deploy-maven-based-war-file-to-tomcat/
Good luck ;)

Do a mvn clean install and you will get a .war file in your target directory of web module.
Copy it and paste it in tomcat_home/webapps directory and restart tomcat. Thats it. now, you can access it in whatever configured port (eg: http://localhost:8080/<your webapp war name>). lets say your war name is myapp.war, then tomcat would have extracted it into myapp folder in webapps.
so your url will be http://localhost:8080/myapp

With maven deploy command, usually gets errors for various reasons.
if you work in Unix/Linux system, I recommend using "rsync" method on console. (You can write own shell script to manage easily). It helps not only deploying without a problem but also helps to get time while redeploying (only uploading changed / new files). Because maven deploy / redeploy uploads your project as a bundle in jar/war. However "rysnc" method uploads your project files one by one.
Before using it, you should sure that two conditions.
1- your project is built in target folder (Spring Tool Suite)
2- you have access to tomcat via ssh
example code : (v_ : prefix which is variable(customizable))
rsync -avz v_your_project_in_target root#v_ip:v_tomcat_name/webapps/v_project_name
(Second sharing)

Deploying GWT RPC app in Tomcat

As per the Google tutorial, I have developed the basic StockWatcher application, that makes an RPC call to the server, which sends some data, which is displayed on the client.
I now want to deploy it in Tomcat, such that if call something like localhost/StockWatcher, I should get the same experience as when running the app from GWT in development mode.
How do I do this? There is a similar topic here, but I couldn't much understand it. If I only copy the compiled war folder, what happens to the GreetingServiceImpl class which handles the RPC? And how do I do the mapping such that localhost/StockWatcher maps to localhost:8080 (something like Mod_Rewrite)?

Steps to deploy war on TOMCAT
1)Compile you gwt web application
2)Copy the war file
3)Add all libraries(jar files) in lib folder of war file
4)Rename your war as "myapp"
5)create a .war file with that "myapp" folder
6)start tomcat with catalina.bat run.
For step5 (generating .war file ):Preparing .war file from command line

Normally if you deploy well your war directory and you are able to start tomcat you have done everything. If you access your page using this url : localhost:8080/StockWatcher gwt will know that it must use that url as a baseURL for all gwt/rpc requests.
To generate the war using Eclipse : right click on the project -> export -> war. You will have the war exported with all the dependencies inside. just unzip it in the ROOT directory

where to copy servlet files in apache tomcat server to work fine with web?

Can anyone guide me how to get Servlets working in Apache Tomcat server? I can run the Servlets from Netbeans without problems, but I don't know where to put the class files in Tomcat.

In tomcat:
class files must be in TOMCAT_DIR/webapps/<yourAppName>/WEB-INF/classes
jar files must be in TOMCAT_DIR/webapps/<yourAppName>/WEB-INF/lib
(and if course you'll need web.xml in WEB-INF)

They go in Tomcat/webapps folder. There are several ways to deploy a JSP/Servlet webapplication on Tomcat. They are all described in Tomcat Web Application Deployment HOW-TO.
If you already have developed the webapplication in Netbeans, then Netbeans should already have build a WAR file of it in the /dist folder. You just need to drop the WAR file in Tomcat/webapps folder and Tomcat will automatically deploy it during startup (or even while running, this is called hotdeploy).
If you want to develop without an IDE and/or don't want to create a WAR, then you just need to put a folder representing the context name in Tomcat/webapps, e.g. Tomcat/webapps/contextname. It will become the public web content. You can drop all JSP files and other static files in there. Then, for classes you need to create a Tomcat/webapps/contextname/WEB-INF/classes folder. There should go the package structure.