create WAR file

Of course you have to compile your *.java to *.class files and the *.java files are not necessary to be included in the war file.

Here is the command,
under your web application root.

jar cvf webname.war .
notes the dot at the end.

where webname is your web application context name.

Thanks. I still have questions, I do not know how actually it works. I have the WAR file (fastt.war) of a production system. I need to updated one or two of its JSP files. Now I need a test environment where I do the updates and tests. I have installed tomcat web server on my Windows2000 PC. I have put the WAR file (copied from the production system application server) at C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24\webapps\fastt.war
Now I restarted tomcat and I can see the directory created C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24\webapps\fastt\ and all JSP,class, java etc. files are created under appropriate folders and I can get to the web page on http://localhost:8080/fastt/index.jsp

But here the application does not work. Do I need to have all Java componets (JDBC driver, LDAP, JavaMail etc) available/installed on my tomcat server to make the application work? (The application work ok in the production system with this WAR file).

If so, I do not have JDBC driver and LDAP module installed in my Java environment on my PC. These are there in the application JAVA/JSP codes.
I get these errors when I click through the application on my tomcat server:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Name jdbc is not bound in this Context

I have put two questions about LDAP/JDBC installation for my codes to work.These are few lines of my code in a Java file:
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import netscape.ldap.*;
import java.sql.*;
import oracle.jdbc.*;

I have put two questions for the same:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20770963/JDBC-driver-download.html

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20766900/Cannot-import-netscape-ldap.html

Any help...
thanks.
-tooki

The web.xml file that was there inside the WAR file, does not contain any datasource information.The following is the  web.xml file:

**web.xml***
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <!DOCTYPE web-app (View Source for full doctype...)>
- <web-app>
  <display-name>FASTT</display-name>
  <description>FASTT</description>
- <welcome-file-list>
  <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
  </web-app>
*****

I have seen two files ldapfilt.jar and ldapjdk.jar inside the directory .../webapps/fastt/WEB-INF/lib in my local webserver loaction (after I have put the WAR file there under the .../webapps/ directory.

These two files contain some class files:

C:\>jar tf ldapfilt.jar
netscape/ldap/util/BadFilterException.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDAPFilter.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDAPFilterDescriptor.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDAPFilterList.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDAPIntFilterList.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDAPIntFilterSet.class
com/
com/oroinc/
com/oroinc/text/
com/oroinc/text/regex/
com/oroinc/text/regex/Pattern.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/1.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/2.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/3.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/4.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/MalformedPatternException.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/MatchResult.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/PatternCompiler.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/PatternMatcher.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/PatternMatcherInput.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/Perl5Compiler.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/Perl5Debug.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/Perl5Matcher.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/Perl5Pattern.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/Perl5StreamInput.class
com/oroinc/text/regex/Util.class

C:\>jar tf ldapjdk.jar
netscape/ldap/LDAPAttribute.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPModification.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPAttributeSchema.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPAttributeSet.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPCache.class
netscape/ldap/Timer.class
netscape/ldap/TimerRunnable.class
netscape/ldap/TimerEvent.class
netscape/ldap/TimerEventListener.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPCheckComm.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPCompareAttrNames.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPConnection.class
netscape/ldap/ResponseControl.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPConnThread.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPControl.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPDN.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPEntry.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPEntryComparator.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPException.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPExtendedOperation.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPMatchingRuleSchema.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPModificationSet.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPObjectClassSchema.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPRebind.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPRebindAuth.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPReferralException.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPResourceBundle.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPResponseListener.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSchema.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSchemaElement.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSearchConstraints.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSearchListener.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSearchResults.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSocketFactory.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSortKey.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSSLSocketFactory.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSSLSocketFactoryExt.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSSLSocketWrapFactory.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPSSLSocket.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPUrl.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPv2.class
netscape/ldap/LDAPv3.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPAVA.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilter.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterAnd.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterSet.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterOr.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterNot.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterApproxMatch.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterAVA.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterGreaterOrEqual.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterLessOrEqual.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterExtensible.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterPresent.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterEqualityMatch.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterSubString.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPFilterOpers.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPBERTagDecoder.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPControl.class
netscape/ldap/client/JDAPMessage.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPAbandonRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPAddRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPAddResponse.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPBaseDNRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPBindRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPBindResponse.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPCompareRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPCompareResponse.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPDeleteRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPDeleteResponse.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPExtendedRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPExtendedResponse.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPModifyRDNRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPModifyRDNResponse.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPModifyRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPModifyResponse.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPProtocolOp.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPResult.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPSearchRequest.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPSearchResponse.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPSearchResult.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPSearchResultReference.class
netscape/ldap/client/opers/JDAPUnbindRequest.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERAny.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERBitString.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERBoolean.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERCharacterString.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERChoice.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERConstruct.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERElement.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BEREnumerated.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERInteger.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERIntegral.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERNull.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERNumericString.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERObjectId.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BEROctetString.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERPrintableString.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERReal.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERSequence.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERSet.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERTag.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERTagDecoder.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERUTCTime.class
netscape/ldap/ber/stream/BERVisibleString.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPEntryChangeControl.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPPasswordExpiredControl.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPPasswordExpiringControl.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPPersistSearchControl.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPProxiedAuthControl.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPSortControl.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPStringControl.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPVirtualListControl.class
netscape/ldap/controls/LDAPVirtualListResponse.class
netscape/ldap/util/DN.class
netscape/ldap/util/RDN.class
netscape/ldap/util/ByteBuf.class
netscape/ldap/util/GetOpt.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIF.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIF$LineReader.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIFAddContent.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIFAttributeContent.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIFContent.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIFDeleteContent.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIFModDNContent.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIFModifyContent.class
netscape/ldap/util/LDIFRecord.class
netscape/ldap/util/MimeBase64Decoder.class
netscape/ldap/util/MimeBase64Encoder.class
netscape/ldap/util/MimeEncoder.class
netscape/ldap/errors/ErrorCodes.props
netscape/ldap/errors/ErrorCodes_de.props
netscape/ldap/errors/ErrorCodes_fr.props
netscape/ldap/errors/ErrorCodes_ja.props
com/netscape/sasl/SASLClientCB.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLClientMechanismDriver.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLException.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLGetLanguageCB.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLInfoClientCB.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLMechanismFactory.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLNamePasswordClientCB.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLOkayCancelClientCB.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLPasswordClientCB.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLSecurityLayer.class
com/netscape/sasl/SASLWarningClientCB.class
com/netscape/sasl/mechanisms/SASLExternalMechanism.class
LDAPDelete.class
LDAPModify.class
LDAPSearch.class
LDAPTool.class
LDAPTool$1.class

thanks.
-tooki

tooki, trust me... i think you should use the IDE tools to help you to do such things...
I means, the conventional way (dos prompt) will work, but if you use the development tools to handle those stuffs will make your life easier...

previous i faced the same problem. and when i complied and war it using the dos prompt, my application server just refuse to accept that .war file.

I sugegst you to have a look at the Netbean IDE. Just a clikc button for you to war your files.

I have problem to connect to the database from my JSP code.So in any case, I have to specify the connect string to connect to the database server, the database name and user/password. I do not know where I shall specify these info (inside my JSP code or in any file like web.xml in the tomcat web server location).
thanks.-tooki