title: Eclipse publishing to Tomcat
body: <p>I recently came back to using Eclipse after 2 years of IntelliJ. Things have changed.</p>
  
  <p>Now when I try to run Tomcat, it tries to <strong>publish</strong> my project to it. What the hell is publish? </p>
  
  <p>What ever happened to pushing a war into the webapps directory and letting Tomcat deploy it?</p>
  
  <p>Right now my deployment is broken because of compilation errors. I have a feeling that Eclipse is taking my project and copying it to webapps dir without first building it properly. </p>
  
  <p>Can someone explain to me what exactly publishing does, and also how to turn it off and use Tomcat like normal people?</p>