Getting Started

Welcome to the VS Code Java world. Here is a guideline to help you get started to write Java code in Visual Studio Code.

Folder Structure

The workspace contains two folders by default, where:

• src: the folder to maintain sources
• lib: the folder to maintain dependencies

Meanwhile, the compiled output files will be generated in the bin folder by default.

If you want to customize the folder structure, open .vscode/settings.json and update the related settings there.

Dependency Management

The JAVA PROJECTS view allows you to manage your dependencies. More details can be found here.

To run the project in visual studio code you should frist create a war file and open that war file in tomcat server(after starting the server, right click on the war file created, and select run on tomcat option) and open it in a browrser by right clicking on the tomcat server.

You can run this command to create a war file(below is my war file creator command) jar -cvf your-project.war -C WebContent/ .