<war>
The <war> task enables you to assemble a Web Archive (WAR) file, which is a file format used for deploying Web applications. The <war> task, which is effectively a shortcut to what can be produced with the <zip> and <jar> tasks using zipfilesets, assists in building up the set of files needed to complete the Web application in the required directory structure.
The list of <war> attributes is provided in Table 4.86.
| Attributes | Description |
|---|---|
| Required | |
| destfile | The name to be given to the WAR file. |
| webxml | The file to be used for the deployment descriptor (that is, the source file for WEB-INF/web.xml). |
| Optional | |
| basedir | The name of the directory from which the files to jar are located. |
| compress | If true, files ... |
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