Writing your first Java web application

The servlet you will be writing to control the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pin through the internet or any local area network requires a series of configurations to build and test in the Windows environment. Then you will deploy the project to the Raspberry Pi manually and run it on the Jetty server.

Creating a Maven project from Archetype

1. Open the NetBeans IDE and from the menu bar, click on File | New Project. The New Project wizard will appear.
2. In Choose Project (step 1), select Maven under Categoriesand Project from Archetype under Projects,as shown in Figure 6-4.
3. Then, click the Next button to proceed:

Figure 6-4: Choose project

4. In Maven Archetype (step 2), select maven-archetype-webapp under Known Archetypes, as shown...