How to open a Project in NetBeans

When you clean and build under Netbeans, you should find all you need under the dist folder:

  • if you a creating a web application you should find a .war file – that is the file to deploy: just copy it to the webapps folder for Tomcat
  • if you are creating a standalone application or a library, you should find the .jar

Above assume you do not use maven for the project. If you did you would not have a dist folder, but the standard maven target one.

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