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Populate Web module

After you enable Web development support in a module, IntelliJ IDEA sets up the basic module structure as follows:

  • Creates a web folder with the index.jsp stub file. By default, the web folder will be the root of your application after deployment and the index.jsp file will be its home page.

  • Creates a WEB-INF subfolder that contains the web.xml descriptor with an Action servlet configured.

  • Creates an src folder if you specified so when creating your project.

To populate the Web module, perform the following general steps:

Last modified: 09 May 2020