what's a war file? what is it used for? how is it different from jar?

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Carter, Scott
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:49 PM
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Subject: help deploying war file


I know this process should be very straight forward, but I am having a
little trouble.

I created a war file at the top level of my web application
$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/j by using jar cvf xsite.war .
I moved this file (xsite.war) to $TOMECAT_HOME/webapps/x and made a new
entry in server.xml as follows:

    <Context path="/x" docBase="x" debug="0" reloadable="false"
crossContext="true"/>

when I went to hit the site http://localhost:8080/x it gave me the screen
for a directory listing just showing xsite.xml even though the web.xml file
in the war file has a welcome file. The site works fine unpackaged under
the /j/ path.



please help

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