After I was so spoiled by GWT/Eclipse’s streamlined way of deploying a GWT application to the embedded server or Google App Engine, I was annoyed by how little support it has for other application servers. Fortunately, I was able to semi-automatically generate a WAR file for manual deployment on a remote server by following this tutorial 🙂
Back when I was working with Netbeans, deployment to a remote server was as simple as a single mouse click. On Eclipse, deployment to a remote server appears to be discouraged.