Create war and ear

use ant

http://www.roseindia.net/jboss/buildingwebapplicationwithant.shtml
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1267300/how-do-i-create-an-ear-file-with-an-ant-build-including-certain-files

Perhaps this should help (see at the bottom)

http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-create-a-war-file-using-the-jar-command.html

After cd to this folder D:\JDE\Application, I try to create jar and i get the below error message, what could be the reason.

Thank you

D:\JDE\Application>jar -cvf Application.war
No public JRE.

Well, I guess you still don't have jre in the PATH

sounds like you didn't tick the install JRE option when installing the jdk

As you suggested in the previous post I did set classpath=./;

JRE is installed I verified from the control panel and issing command java -version is that the not right way to verify please advise

You can check your PATH and find java bin folder and check if you have jar there.

Actually I think I have jar.exe with JDK not JRE

can you run javac

This is a bit strange message - No public JRE - ?
Normally it just cannot find the executable.

Yes I can
Directory of C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin

3/23/2011  06:34 PM    <DIR>          .
3/23/2011  06:34 PM    <DIR>          ..
3/23/2011  06:29 PM            49,271 appletviewer.exe
3/23/2011  06:29 PM            49,260 apt.exe
3/23/2011  06:29 PM            36,972 beanreg.dll
3/23/2011  06:29 PM            49,269 extcheck.exe
3/23/2011  06:29 PM            20,480 HtmlConverter.exe
3/23/2011  06:29 PM            49,271 idlj.exe
3/23/2011  06:29 PM            49,252 jar.exe
3/23/2011  06:29 PM            49,273 jarsigner.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,245 java.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,266 javac.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,272 javadoc.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,266 javah.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,262 javap.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,247 javaw.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM           127,075 javaws.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,271 jconsole.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,275 jdb.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,256 jps.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,262 jstat.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,265 jstatd.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,269 keytool.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,265 kinit.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,265 klist.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,263 ktab.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,283 native2ascii.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            53,380 orbd.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,277 pack200.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            69,742 packager.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,275 policytool.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,257 rmic.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,263 rmid.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,275 rmiregistry.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,274 serialver.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            49,296 servertool.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM            53,389 tnameserv.exe
3/23/2011  06:30 PM           127,098 unpack200.exe

I have a folder with jsp and configuration files, all I am trying to do is create a ear or war file. Preferably ear file to deploy to webspehere.

Is your directory which you listed in the PATH.
Check the PATH in the same dos window where you are running the jar command

Also try to set JAVA_HOME to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin although it does not matter normally, still try in the same window

set JAVA_HOME="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0"

tried but no help, could you please send me the command i will copy and paste

Which command  you mean?
Check the path:

echo %PATH%

or just simply say

PATH

and send the result

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin>echo %path%
C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\Wind
owsPowerShell\v1.0

Sir,
I added the path as you suggested , now I get different error ..i hope we are very close to solve this problem you are real genius

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin\Application>jar -cvf Application.war

All I am trying to create a ear file or war file of Application directory

c' flag requires that input files be specified!
sage: jar {ctxu}[vfm0Mi] [jar-file] [manifest-file] [-C dir] files ...
ptions:
   -c  create new archive
   -t  list table of contents for archive
   -x  extract named (or all) files from archive
   -u  update existing archive
   -v  generate verbose output on standard output
   -f  specify archive file name
   -m  include manifest information from specified manifest file
   -0  store only; use no ZIP compression
   -M  do not create a manifest file for the entries
   -i  generate index information for the specified jar files
   -C  change to the specified directory and include the following file
f any file is a directory then it is processed recursively.
he manifest file name and the archive file name needs to be specified
n the same order the 'm' and 'f' flags are specified.

You need to be in the same folder where you have your struff amnd you need to piut dot after the war namer check the blac0k window picture in the link which I sent you

Thank  you created the War file. from the bottom of my heart..thank you. Last question how do I create ear file from this war file.

Thank you and have a happy night

WAR file contains web application deployable in J2EE/JEE application server

EAR contains WAR and EJB. If you don't have EJB in your application
you do not need to have EAR file. You just deploy your application as WAR file.

See description:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1594667/war-vs-ear-file

If you are using application server which supports EJB - say Weblogic,
they have interface which creates EAR files for you.

If you are deploying your Web applications (containing html, jsp, servlet classes)
say in Tomcat, you don't need to create EAR files

Thank you sir. I deployed the war file successfully. It's working like a charm. And a very BIG thank you to you. People like you really make a big difference in others life. Glad that you are here..keep up teh \very good work.

God bless you and the world.

very..Excellent

You are always welcome.
I very much appreciate your attitude.