IntelliJ IDEA tightly integrates with the wide variety of popular Web application servers for seamless and efficient debugging and deployment of your Web applications.

See the live demo on deploying Web application to the JBoss server with IntelliJ IDEA.

You can use IntelliJ IDEA run configurations to specify the debugging and deployment environment settings and that let you create the environment that completely fits your application and its requirements.

IntelliJ IDEA Web application server support features include:

• Fully featured debugging of Java and JSP files with breakpoints, step-by-step execution, evaluating expressions, etc.
• Automatic deployment and removal of Web, JavaEE, and EJB modules to and from supported servers.
• Supported servers management ? starting and stopping local server instances, managing remote server connections.
• Dedicated support for EJB on WebLogic server: editors for specific EJB descriptors, datasource management and configuration.

IntelliJ IDEA natively supports the following Web application servers:

• Apache Tomcat versions 4.x and 5.x
• Bea Systems WebLogic versions 7.x, 8.x, 9.x and 10.x
• IBM WebSphere versions 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1

Additionally the standard IntelliJ IDEA package includes plugins that provide for support of:

• JBoss
• Geronimo
• Glassfish