| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
| <!DOCTYPE html |
| PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> |
| <html><head> |
| <!-- /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ --> |
| <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../org.eclipse.wst.doc.user/common.css"/> |
| <title>Web archive (WAR) files</title> |
| </head> |
| <body id="cwwarovr"><a name="cwwarovr"><!-- --></a> |
| <h1 class="topictitle1">Web archive (WAR) files</h1> |
| <div><p> A Web application is a group of HTML pages, JSP pages, servlets, resources |
| and source file, which can be managed as a single unit. A Web archive (WAR) |
| file is a packaged Web application. WAR files can be used to import a Web |
| application into a Web server.</p> |
| <p>In addition to project resources, the WAR file includes a Web deployment |
| descriptor file. The Web deployment descriptor is an XML file that contains |
| deployment information, MIME types, session configuration details, and other |
| settings for a Web application. The Web deployment descriptor file (<span class="filepath">web.xml</span>) |
| provides information about the WAR file is shared with the developers, assemblers, |
| and deployers in a J2EE environment.</p> |
| <div class="p">The Web development environment provides facilities for importing and exporting |
| WAR files, using the following wizards: <ul><li><span>Import Resources from a WAR File</span>, which requires that you to |
| specify a Web project. You can use existing projects or create them as you |
| use the wizard.</li> |
| <li><span>Export Resources to a WAR File</span>, which requires only an export |
| location and some optional settings</li> |
| </ul> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div><div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br> |
| <div><a href="cwebresources.html">Web resources</a></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br> |
| <div><a href="twimpwar.html">Importing Web archive (WAR) files</a></div> |
| <div><a href="twcrewar.html">Exporting Web Archive (WAR) files</a></div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </body></html> |
