Hello, 

You can try the eclipse tomcat plugin in, to deploy from eclipse when you are on dev mode 
https://www.mulesoft.com/tcat/tomcat-eclipse

You can also use maven, ant or gradle to create and deploy a war file rather than a jar file. The war file will contain your classes and jars.
https://www.mkyong.com/maven/how-to-create-a-web-application-project-with-maven/
https://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/gradle/getting-started-with-gradle-creating-a-web-application-project/

Regards,

Keyman

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Samuel Waithaka via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Hello,

I could use some help from java gurus, on building java web project. Here's my scenario:
We use Eclipse, and Tomcat; during development, as usual we add libraries on the java build path (JDBC, Shiro authentication support, JSF and JSTL etc), we however discovered that we still have to add (some of) the libraries on Tomcat as well. (isn't there a better way of doing this?)

The main question though for the build; the ideal option I understand is to convert eclipse project to Maven. I'm wondering if there's anything we need to do with dependencies on pom.xml, or eclipse will do it automatically. I did with a test project and realized there's nothing on the dependacies on pom.xml.

Will appreciate some advise.

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