some basic questions related to configuration, and deployment

[jherilla]

I come from a different IDE.

I have been trying to figure out the nuances of netbeans, and have a few questions.

I am demoing a Java EE application. It is not distributed yet, but I dont wish to have it just as a Web app because again, im demonstrating a distributed application.

When changing a configuration file used by a DAO Factory on startup, I need to restart the application. Should I not be able to just redeploy the -ejb project? I have tried several ways, but if I try to access the index.jsp I get a malformed URL exception unless I redploy the -war project as well. This is time costly as I have many image files.

I have tried starting over with a new project in Netbeans, but things get stored in unexpected places, so I have just started with a basic Java EE application and then pasted in my source code and configurations.

Help is appreciated, so far I do like netbeans, I just want to understand it at a deeper level.

thanks,
WG

[jherilla]

to add to this - i would expect i can right click and deploy the main project, which has the -ejb and -war. when i try - i get this error message:

SEVERE: Exception while deploying the app
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.enterprise.deployment.WebBundleDescriptor cannot be cast to com.sun.enterprise.deployment.Application