Generate war file from tomcat webapp folder

Question

I have a tomcat server working  and there I have a webapp folder my web app   I didn t deploy the project  I only have that folder of that application  as TOMCAT DIR webapps my web app     What I need is a WAR file  How can I create a  war file from this webapp

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There is a way to create war file of your project from eclipse.

First a create an xml file with the following code,

Replace HistoryCheck with your project name.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="HistoryCheck" basedir="." default="default">
    <target name="default" depends="buildwar,deploy"></target>
    <target name="buildwar">
        <war basedir="war" destfile="HistoryCheck.war" webxml="war/WEB-INF/web.xml">
            <exclude name="WEB-INF/**" />
            <webinf dir="war/WEB-INF/">
                <include name="**/*.jar" />
            </webinf>
        </war>
    </target>
    <target name="deploy">
        <copy file="HistoryCheck.war" todir="." />
    </target>
</project>

Now, In project explorer right click on that xml file and Run as-> ant build

You can see the war file of your project in your project folder.

User · Answer

Create the war file in a different directory to where the content is otherwise the jar command might try to zip up the file it is creating      bin bash  set -euo pipefail  war app war src contents    Clean last war build if   -e   war     then     echo  Removing old war   war       rm -rf   war  fi    Build war if   -d   src     then     echo  Found source at   src       cd   src      jar -cvf      war        cd    fi    Show war details ls -la   war

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Its just like creating a WAR file of your project  you can do it in several ways  from Eclipse  command line  maven    If you want to do from command line  the command is   jar -cvf my web app war      Which means   compress everything in this directory into a file named my web app war   c create  v verbose  f file

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You can create  war file back from your existing folder   Using this command   cd  to your folder location jar -cvf my web app war

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