can anyone give me the right scenario to make a maven web project and deploy a war using it in intellij idea with maven 3.2 and tomcat 7/8 and java 8.i'm having trouble with configuring and the folder structure about it and deployment of the web mainly
from memory if you ask IntelliJ to create a new project you should be able to select maven project from the options and then use the maven web app arche type to have it create a skeleton web project for you.
This is from IntelliJ 15 CE but I doubt its that much different in 14. Notice the checking of the create from archetype box