Deploying your war file from Jenkins to Tomcat

At my company we’re currently moving away from developing large desktop applications to developing smaller web applications. Changing our build-test-deploy processes is also part of that transition. After using Jenkins for a long time merely for continuous integration, I wanted to see what it takes to set up a continuous deployment pipeline. In this short post I’ll describe the steps to extend a Jenkins job to automatically deploy a built war file to a Tomcat instance. In future posts I intend to also elaborate on adding automated tests using Cucumber and or Selenium to the Jenkins build.

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