Erin Lester wrote:
> Can anyone point me to some information about creating WAR files.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.3-doc/appdev/deployment.html
> Supposedly you can create them with deploytool, but I only know
> how to do this with the gui version and don't have an x-windows
> server on the server I'm working on.
Very easy. Use Ant: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html . Ant is
the default build tool (like 'make') for Jakarta applications.
And take a look at the Tomcat source examples/build.sh and
examples/build.xml files to see how Ant builds a WAR file.
> I've also read that you can use jartool to create WAR
> files, but the instructions said you will need to create your own version
> of the deployment descriptor. What does this mean? create my own
> web.xml? I have a web.xml but don't really use it for much (not all the
> servlets are in the web.xml).
Yup, it means create your own web.xml. Just make sure it is in
appname/WEB-INF/.
> Is there anything special we need to do in the web.xml/deployment
> descriptor file?
Nope.
> and will a WAR created with the jar tool preserve the
> directory structure of the application?
Yup.
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