Deploying and running the HTML Hello World sample by using Apache Maven

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To deploy and run the Hello World sample by using Apache Maven, complete the following steps:

1 Set up the Apache Maven environment, see Set up environment.

2 From the root directory of the sample application, run the following command to generate a build in the folder ‘target’:

mvn clean package

3 Deploy the .war file to an Apache Tomcat or IBM WebSphere server, or deploy and run the sample by running the following command:

mvn tomcat7:run

The sample application is deployed.

You can access the sample application UI at the following URL:

http://localhost:8888/HtmlHelloWorldMaven.

The default port is 8888, and the default context root is HtmlHelloWorldMaven, but you can change these in pom.xml.