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<title id="title">Creating a server</title>
<shortdesc><ph id="shortdesc">You can create a server to identify the runtime
environment that you want to use for testing your project resources. The term <i>creating
a server</i> defines creating a pointer from the workbench to an existing
installation of an application server</ph>.</shortdesc>
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<keywords id="index"><indexterm>servers<indexterm>creating</indexterm><indexterm>creating
a pointer</indexterm></indexterm><indexterm>wizards<indexterm>New Server</indexterm></indexterm>
<indexterm>New Server wizard</indexterm></keywords>
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<context id="context">To create a server:</context>
<steps id="steps">
<step id="step1"><cmd>Select any of the following options:</cmd>
<choices>
<choice>In the Servers view (<menucascade><uicontrol>Window</uicontrol><uicontrol>Show
View</uicontrol><uicontrol>Servers</uicontrol></menucascade>), right-click
and select <menucascade><uicontrol>New</uicontrol><uicontrol>Server</uicontrol>
</menucascade>.</choice>
<choice>In the menu bar, click <uicontrol>File > New > Other</uicontrol>.
Expand the <uicontrol>Server</uicontrol> folder and then select  <uicontrol>Server</uicontrol>.</choice>
</choices>
</step>
<step id="step2"><cmd>Click  <uicontrol>Next</uicontrol>.</cmd><info>The New
Server wizard opens. This wizard defines a new server, that contains information
required to point to a specific runtime environment for local or remote testing,
or for publishing to an application server.</info></step>
<step id="step3"><cmd>In the <uicontrol>Server's host name</uicontrol> field,
you can provide the fully qualified DNS name or IP address of the host machine
that where the server is running. By default, this field is pre-filled with
the default address: <userinput>localhost</userinput></cmd></step>
<step><cmd>In the <uicontrol>Select the server type</uicontrol> list, select
the type of server or test environment where you want to publish or test your
resources.</cmd>
<substeps>
<substep><cmd>(Optional) Refer to the <uicontrol>Description</uicontrol> section
for brief details about the server you have selected.</cmd></substep>
<substep><cmd>(<?Pub Caret1?>Optional) In the text field under the <uicontrol>Select
the server type</uicontrol> label, you can replace the text <userinput>type
filter text</userinput> with keywords to filter the list of available application
servers.</cmd><info>The following are examples of filter keywords:<dl><dlentry>
<dt><userinput>Apache</userinput></dt>
<dd>Filters the list of available servers where the vendor is Apache</dd>
</dlentry><dlentry>
<dt><userinput>WebSphere</userinput></dt>
<dd>Filters the list of available servers where the name is WebSphere</dd>
</dlentry><dlentry>
<dt><userinput>ejb</userinput></dt>
<dd>Filters the list of available servers that support ejb modules.</dd>
</dlentry><dlentry>
<dt><userinput>web</userinput></dt>
<dd>Filters the list of available servers that support Web modules</dd>
</dlentry><dlentry>
<dt><userinput>5.0</userinput></dt>
<dd>Filters the list of available servers that are at version, 5.0 or supports
JEE 5 specification level.</dd>
</dlentry><dlentry>
<dt><userinput>1.2</userinput></dt>
<dd>Filters the list of available servers that supports J2EE 1.2 specification
level or any servers that may have a version-level of 1.2.</dd>
</dlentry></dl></info></substep>
</substeps>
</step>
<step><cmd>Click <uicontrol>Next</uicontrol> and follow the instructions in
the wizard to specify the details of the server that you want to create.</cmd>
</step>
<step><cmd>Click  <uicontrol>Finish</uicontrol>.</cmd><info>The new server
appears in the Servers view under the  <uicontrol>Server</uicontrol> column.</info>
</step>
</steps>
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