The simplest option for the list is also the most versatile and the recommended. Application Files (WAR/EAR) generates a web application archive (WAR) or enterprise archive (EAR) that you can deploy using any deployment method you would like. In short, this is the option to use when you want to deploy to anything other than directly to Cloud Foundry V1 or a Tomcat 6 manager application.
Selection of a deployment type brings us to the deployment dialog, which is customized for our project and our deployment selection. The left-hand side bar of the dialog is a list of saved deployments with add, delete, and copy buttons. These are the same controls shown in the Manage Deployments submenu items for managing saved deployments. Selecting an existing deployment, such as Production by selecting Deploy to Production… from the Deploy Project item, opens that deployment configuration.
In the Settings panel, we can specify a Deployment name and select the Type of archive we want. If the project...