You don’t need to install Tomcat, JBoss or any other web server in order to run a Java web application (.war file)! If your project is configured with a Maven pom.xml and the module has <packaging>war</packaging>, you can just add this little piece of XML inside the pom’s <plugins> tag: <plugin> <groupId>net.sf.alchim</groupId> <artifactId>winstone-maven-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> [...]
