WAR files—useful links for CISC474, 06S

WAR files are like JAR files, but with the "extra stuff" needed for a web app all built in (e.g. the deployment descriptor, JSPs, static HTML files, etc.).

Basic facts:

• "In Tomcat, the name of the WAR file become the web app name!" (HFSJ, p. 580).
  • example: BeerApp.war
• The WAR file should contain everything that would normally be in the BeerApp directory, but not the top level BeerApp directory itself.

Information in your textbook on WAR files

• Chapter 11 of HFSJ, especially pages 579, 580, 581.

Information from the web

• Apache Ant documentation on the War task
• A tutorial on WAR files from Sun's J2EE documentations
• Manually Creating a Simple Web ARchive (WAR) File, By Matthew Hosanee.

Information from Safari Enabled Books (links require a O'Reilly Safari subscription)

• Recipe 4.5. Creating a WAR File with Ant (from Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook By Bruce W. Perry