Packaging Web Applications
All Web components are packaged together into a standard file, a Web Archive (WAR) file, which can be deployed into the Web container. A WAR file is a type of JAR file that can be created using the jar utility. It contains both server-side classes, such as servlets, JavaBeans, JSP, and taglibs, and client-side contents, such as applets, HTML, and images. The directory structure of a WAR file looks like Figure 7.2 illustrated earlier today.
When creating a WAR file, arrange the directory according to the structure in Figure 7.2, and then issue the jar command from the application's home directory:
jar -cvf mywebapp.war *
The web.xml file is the standard Web deployment descriptor, and weblogic.xml is the vendor-specific ...
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