Creating WAR file for a web application
Hi ,
I am trying to create a web application with J2EE 5. The book I am reffering is "Java Server Programming J2EE 1.3 by Allamaraju and Buest".
In this book, it is given that while creating an application, a new web component wizard for creating a WAR file will appear. But, I can't see any such wizard using console manager of J2EE 5. I do not know how to create WAR files.
Please anybody help me. Thanks in advance.
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baggaa] at [2007-10-3 4:09:49]
Hi bagga,
A WAR file is simply a JAR file with a special directory format. You should put all of your public/normal web files (e.g. HTML pages, images) in the root directory (or sub-directories - e.g. /img/). If you need to write a web.xml file to describe servlets, etc. then this should be put in /WEB-INF. Any classes that exist in your web archive - such as servlets - should be put in /WEB-INF/classes. Finally, any libraries that your servlets depend on (apart from EJBs) should be put into WEB-INF/lib.
So an example JAR-tree for 'myapp.war' might look like:
/index.html
/img/mylogo.png
/WEB-INF/web.xml
/WEB-INF/classes/uk/org/fuzelogik/example/MyServlet.class
/WEB-INF/lib/some-lib.jar
Hope this helps.
-Chris
