They are simply a way of bundling up a context. If you are developing a
context "mycontext" and it sits in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mycontext, then to
make a war file all you need to do is:
cd $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mycontext
jar -cf ../mycontext.war *
and you would have a war file that you could theoretically deploy in any
servlet container. This assumes that you have all the classes you need in
mycontext/lib/*.jar or mycontext/classes - which IMHO is what you should
be doing anyway.
cheers
dim
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i am developing jsp sites, but i never had to use war files. do i need them
> really - what is the function of that files?
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> greets
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> bastian
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> Thema: Re: what are war files?
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> a jar file containing the directory structure:
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> /WEB-INF/
> /WEB-INF/web.xml
> /WEB-INF/classes/
> /WEB-INF/lib/
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> and named .war instead of .jar
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> compare examples.war (jar -tf examples.war) with the examples directory
> inside webapps in the install.
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> hth
> dim
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> > sorry for that question, but i dont know it....
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> > thx
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