Cannot run exploded war without web.xml

[mprobst-faw]

• VSCode Version: 1.32.3
• OS Version: Windows 10
• Tomcat Extension Version: 0.11.1

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a Web Fragment project and package it as jar with maven.
2. Create a Web project and package it as war with maven with a dependency to the Web Fragment project.

In my Web project i do not have a web.xml, because it's all in the web-fragment.xml in my Web Fragment project.

If i try to run the war file in Tomcat everything works fine, but if i try to run the exploded war i get the message: "The folder is not a valid web app to run on Tomcat Server.".

When i create a web.xml file it works, but i do not need a web.xml file.

[xhaggi]

I can confirm that, and it's really annoying. Since the Servlet 3 specification, web.xml is no longer needed for configuring your web application and has been replaced by annotations. @SummerSun, it should be enough to just look for the folder WEB-INF to allow the deployment of the exploded war folder. Then if something goes wrong, it's up to us.

It should be enough to remove web.xml from the line https://github.com/adashen/vscode-tomcat/blob/master/src/Tomcat/TomcatController.ts#L287