Packaging Java Enterprise Edition applications
We have discussed how to create ZIP, TAR, and JAR archives with Gradle in this chapter and the previous one. In a Java project, we can also package our applications as Web application Archive (WAR) or Enterprise Archive (EAR) files. For a web application, we would like to package our application as a WAR file, while a Java Enterprise Edition application can be packaged as an EAR file. Gradle also supports these types of archives with plugins and tasks.
Creating a WAR file
To create a WAR file, we can add a new task of the War type to our Java project. The properties and methods of the War task are the same as for the other archive tasks, such as Jar. In fact, the War task extends the Jar task.
The
Get Gradle Effective Implementations Guide - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
