The web applications node lists
the web application contexts that have been deployed to the server. It appears
under the server's instance in the Runtime window.
The IDE adds a web application's context node
the first time you execute the web application
from the IDE.
When the server receives a HTTP request, the server selects the web application for processing the request by matching the longest possible prefix of the Request URI against all of the defined context paths.
If you right-click the web application node and display the contextual menu, you can choose Refresh to bring the contents of the node up-to-date.
If you right-click one of the web application's context nodes and display the contextual menu, you see a list of menu items that enable you to work with the context. The following list describes these menu items and provides links to topics that explain more.
<Context path="/MyApp"> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix="MyApp" suffix=".log" timestamp="true"/> </Context>