How to Create WAR file in IntelliJ IDEA

How to create WAR file for a Java web project in IntelliJ IDEA. In Java, WAR stands for Web ARchive or Web Application Resources - used to package a Java web application into a deployable format (ZIP) on a Servlet container like Apache Tomcat. In this video, you also learn how to change the default file name of the generated WAR file, how to create the WAR file in each project build. And I also show you how to deploy the WAR file onto Apache Tomcat server.