How to create WAR file

Hello! How do you create a .war file to be deployed on a Linux Tomcat server?

Thanks!

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It is generally an automated task of the ant build tool or similar, but you can manually create the war file:

* Open a command prompt and browse to your (unziped) app dir, lets say it is in ROOT folder of tomcat dir, so go to <Tomcat_home>\webapps\ROOT
* Use the java archive command 'jar' to bundle up your application

jar -cvf mango-1.10.0.war mango-1.10.0

In English: "compress everything in this directory into a file named mango-1.10.0.war" (c=create, v=verbose, f=file)

You can find addtional info here:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/WCC3.html