Creating our first web project—a dynamic web project stub

Now that we have installed and configured a JBoss AS 4.2 server instance, it is time to create our first web project. To be honest with you, this is less of a useful project and more of an "instrument" used to reveal as much as possible the facilities of JBoss AS Tools.

So, we decide to use a Dynamic Web Project stub, created straightforward from the New menu | Other | Web node | Dynamic Web Project leaf (Eclipse helps you organize your web applications using a type of project called a Dynamic Web Project). In the creation wizard, just type the test name as the project name and click the Finish button (note that the target runtime was automatically detected as JBoss 4.2, while the rest of fields were filled-up with the default values). Without a web project, many of the JBoss Tools AS facilities will be disabled.