Fastest way to deploy a Java servlet?

Question

What is the fastest way to deploy a Java HttpServlet? Is there a solution that allows you to do it very quickly like I could do in Ruby/PHP/Python with mini

Answer 1

The fastest way is using your IDE of choice, of course. As for the minimal configuration, check out WebServlet annotation which appeared in Servlet 3.0 API. Using this annotation, you don't need any to add any additional information to web.xml.