One of the most common uses for Java EE is to create web applications that can be deployed to servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat, or to full-blown application containers such as WildFly or GlassFish. In this chapter, we're going to look at some of the tools that NetBeans provides to help developers build modern web applications.
We're going to look at the following topics in this chapter:
Creating/configuring web projects
Configuring application servers
Web project run options
Creating Spring Web MVC projects
Adding components to web applications
CSS preprocessors
JavaScript support