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I was perviously using 5.5 Preview Release which worked just fine. I installed 5.5 Beta 2 and now my Tomcat installation does not appear in the "run" category of the project properties--neither does the bundled Tomcat, just "Sun Java System Application Server". However, both the bundled Tomcat and my Tomcat 5.5 do show up in my list of installed servers and I can even start and stop them from the "runtime" tab. I tried removing the server from "Tools > Server Manager" and then adding it from scratch, but it did not work. Why can I not deploy to Tomcat anymore?
The server list in the project properties dialog is reduced to those your project can be deployed to. It seems that your project is a Java EE 5 app and thus it cannot be deployed to Tomcat, which is a J2EE 1.4 container.
I am not using any J2EE specific code. Note that the project runs just fine in the preview edition. Maybe NetBeans considers persistence to be J2EE specific, but this is not true; my code works just fine in Tomcat 5.5.
The preview version set the project to use J2EE 1.5. However, as noted by sherold, Tomcat does not support J2EE 1.5 and hence Netbeans 5.5 Beta 2, does not allow me to deploy to Tomcat. This can be fixed by manually changinge the project.properties file.
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