Then, pick up a handy tip on implementing the HttpSessionBindingListener. You can use a Web Application Archive (WAR) file created from an Ant build script to deploy Java code to a server.

It's pretty simple to deploy a WAR file in Tomcat with Maven. Follow these five steps to ensure a successful, plugin-based Maven Tomcat deploy of a Java web app.

You can also use GlassFish and MySQL for deploying your applications in production environment. This blog entry walks you through the steps of deploying a Grails application on GlassFish and MySQL.