Hi, If you are going to use the community edition of IJ, then you'll have to manually manage the server - i.e. start/stop/deploy/undeploy.
> I am still unclear how to deploy multiple projects to TomEE Just build the wars and drop them in the "webapps" folder of a running TomEE server > The server has a single shared configuration folder where i can manage config files You have the "conf" folder, where you can manually manage the configuration > i can the start and stop the server using the IDE You can use the bin/catalina.sh or catalina.bat script to start the server: start normally: catalina.sh run start in debug mode: catalina.sh jpda run stop the server: just press CTRL+C in the terminal window you used to start the server > but where do i store the TomEE config files what config files ? Also I think that you can automate (i.e. click a button in idea) a great deal of those steps using the maven plugin, but personally I haven't used it . Kind regards, Svetlin 2017-07-12 15:38 GMT+03:00 Matthew Broadhead <matthew.broadh...@nbmlaw.co.uk >: > I am thinking of switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ community edition but > I am still unclear how to deploy multiple projects to TomEE. > > In eclipse i can open multiple projects and then drag them to a server to > deploy them. The server has a single shared configuration folder where i > can manage config files. i can the start and stop the server using the IDE. > > in IntelliJ i understand that i can open each eclipse project as a > "module" under a single umbrella project. but where do i store the TomEE > config files? and how do i deploy the modules and start and stop the > server? >