How to generate a .war file in Eclipse ?

[rodolfo de]

I click right button mouse and try to export my Tomcat project into Eclipse
but there is no .war option.

This .war file is important as long as I want to deploy my first web application on EATJ webhost.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Rodolfo,
Welcome to JavaRanch!

Eclipse doesn't support creating war files out of the box. What plugin are you using to do this or integrate with Tomcat.

[chacky boom]

I used EATJ web hosting too. You just need go to your TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT directory and type:

jar cvf ROOT.war .

.

Upload the ROOT.war to your eatj tomcat server. You can use FTP or web interface to upload it. EATJ web hosting is very good. Try http://www.eatj.com/

[Z Sugiarto]

rodolfo de wrote:I click right button mouse and try to export my Tomcat project into Eclipse
but there is no .war option.

This .war file is important as long as I want to deploy my first web application on EATJ webhost.

I would suggest creating your own ant build.xml file and using the ant war task.
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/war.html

Generally, I would create a directory where I would assemble all the directory and files needed. This allows you to have a different file structure between development and deployment. An example of a development file structure of a web application could be as follow:

project root

project root/src/java
project root/src/java/packages/classes

project root/src/jsp
project root/src/jsp/index.jsp & others

project root/lib/runtime/jar needed at compile and runtime
project root/lib/compile/jar needed at compile time only

project root/src/scripts/
project root/src/scripts/maintenance shell scripts, etc

project root/config/web.xml
project root/config/other configuration file

A build file can then be written to build (assemble) the above into a deployment structure, like so

project root/build/current/WEB-INF <-- all config (incl web.xml copied here
project root/build/current/WEB-INF/classes <-- all java src compiled here
project root/build/current/WEB-INF/lib <-- all runtime-only jars go here
project root/build/current/ <-- all JSP & web stuff (js/css) go here

After the deployment file structure is assembled (using ant) I can then archive it using the ant war task and generate something like. At this point I can also copy the change note, version, readme, and include it within the .war

project root/build/current --> projectName-version-date.war

Which can then be deployed using various ways - the easiest of which is to just copy it into an app server's deployment directory.

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