Can't get Netbeans Project to acknowledge existing Tomcat or Glassfish Server

Question

I haven't been able to figure out what I'm missing here.

I've installed Tomcat and can spin it up fine. (Glassfish too, in my efforts, but I had removed it when I took the screenshot.)

So now I want to hook my project up to the Tomcat instance so I can have Netbeans deploy it for me automatically.

I right-click on my project, go down to Properties. In Project Properties I select 'Run' and go to the drop down to select my server. Only, there's no servers.

Why is it not showing up here? Am I going about this all wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Other potentially useful notes: * Using Gradle (for my first time) * Using Spring Boot (for my first time) * On Windows 10 (don't hate me, I don't love it either)

Answer 1

I was chasing the wrong problem. Spring-boot provides an embedded server so I had no need to install and provide my own.

My real problem was that I had dependencies declared for jpa, postgresql, etc. that I hadn't configured in application.properties. When I tried to run, I'd get an error saying "a problem occurred starting process /path/to/my/jdk/java.exe". I couldn't figure what was going on and, looking around, I saw the issue mentioned in my question about the server.

The solution was to simply comment out the dependencies in my build.gradle until I was ready for them. After I got my PostgreSQL DB set up and added the configureation to application.properties, I was able to un-comment them and it's working great.