can i deploy my application with WEB-INF as war and leave all others as it

hi,

i'm asked to deploy my application in tomcat with only the WEB-INF as war file.

will such a deployment works?

when i made the whole application as war and placed it under webapps it worked

but it didn't the other way.

here is waht i did. the name of my application is abc.

i first created a war file this way

c:/tomcat/webapps/abc>jar cvf abc1.war *.*

then i placed abc1.war under tomcat/webapps and i got my pages.

now i did the following

c:/tomcat/webapps/abc/WEB-INF>jar cvf WEB-INF.war *.*

the i created one folder named abc2 under webapps copied all the jsp, images and all otherthan WEB-INF and pasted it to abc2

then i copied the war file which i created just now, ie:- WEB-INF.war to abc2

but now when i launch the application it says resource not found.

pls help!!!

[891 byte] By [xemaa] at [2007-11-26 19:54:04]
# 1
Totaly going wrong i guess!!
mshanua at 2007-7-9 22:46:25 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Web Tier APIs...
# 2
can u please elaborate...because i need to speak about that to the manager who is asking me to do so. he will not listen to me until i explain with true reasons.
xemaa at 2007-7-9 22:46:25 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Web Tier APIs...
# 3
ask ur manager to study some basics on web applications and java..
mshanua at 2007-7-9 22:46:25 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Web Tier APIs...