Autosync web-app on application server

Please refer to https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/updating-applications-running-on-application-servers.html .

I read this already. I deployed the html/js war as "exploeded" and the other war not exploded (if i deploy it exploded i get class not found for whatever reason). But as i said i need the update only for html-project: I do nat have the option "Update classes and resources". This options seem to exist per application server/run config and not per deployment?!

So how to get my html/js-war(exploded) synced with server while there is also another not exploded war deployed? Or why i get calss not found error (for a existent class) if i deploy the JavaEE war "exploded"? (all works fine if deployed manually/not exploded or via eclipse)

There is some problem with your artifact configuration, like missing classes/jars. Fix it per http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/configuring-artifacts.html .

Update classes and resources is available only for exploded artifacts.

As i stated before: i deployed the web-project "exploded" - so autosync should be available for it shouldn't it?
Besides this the project is a maven project, artifacts and classes and manifest is managed by maven. The class not found error is for an own class - that is there and i could edit it, and there is no error elswhere (manual deploy, war deploy, eclipse). The odd thing about exploded deployment is: IntelliJ seems to give the deployment another name (don't know if this is a problem):
In maven-war plugin the name for war is "timetracker-backend.war" and thus deployment name is "timetracker-backend" but if i deploy "exploded" the name changes to "timetracker-backend-1.1-SNAPSHOT".

This is the error (i think that is just the first class not found):

"Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.prodyna.pac.timtracker.model.BookingRepository from [Module "deployment.timetracker-backend-1.1-SNAPSHOT:main" from Service Module Loader]"


As you see in screenshot, the name of deployment is correctly shown but for some reason if deployed it becomes "timetracker-backend-1.1-SNAPSHOT", but i am not sure if this is the reason for class not found exception.

You can use workDirectory option for maven-war-plugin to change it: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-112722 .

Thanks, exploeded deployment is working now (and stuf is also instantly updated - great!):

i changed the maven-war-plugin config to have warName == name of webappDirectory (not workDirectory):

<configuration>
   <webappDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${artifactId}</webappDirectory> <-- new
   <warName>${artifactId}</warName>
   <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>

For some reason this is only necessary for javaee project (the html/js project worked before). Do you know the cause? Is my assumption right that war's name must match directory? (i don't have good feeling to change maven config for one IDE)