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what is a WAR file?

can anyone tell me what is a WAR file? and how to create it?
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Hi,

WAR file is something like your JAR but it is web application scope.

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Dave
So....

If let say that now, you develop J2EE web application using Tomcat, then 6 months later, you decide to move to bea weblogic. What you can do is that you need to move this WAR file into Bea Weblogic folder and that's all.

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Pretty much your webapp jarred up.
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Mmm....

But I strongly recommend you to use Java IDE such as Eclipse, JBuilder or etc to help you from doing it manually.

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Dave
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>>But I strongly recommend you to use Java IDE such as Eclipse, JBuilder or etc to help you from doing it manually.

but wouldnt that make us IDE dependent? anyway, this is just my own opinion..
Hi,

>>"but wouldnt that make us IDE dependent?"
Yes, okay, so you should learn all of the things. After you understand it then you can use IDE.

Btw, thanks for the point.

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thanks for your help ;)