How do i create a war file manually

[Anil Verghese]

Hi,

I am using netbeans, I want to create a war file manually so that the source files cant be accessed..
Is there a way i can create war files in such a way that the source files cant be accessed.



Regards
Anil

[Ulf Dittmer]

A war file is just a special form of a zip file. Anyone who has access to it can unzip it and get access to the individual files.

What exactly are you trying to protect against?

[Anil Verghese]

Hi,
I want to know if there is any way i can prevent my codes from being viewed by anyone. I was told that we can prevent it by creating war files manually if this is not possible is there any other way

Anil

[Joachim Rohde]

You cannot prevent anyone from seeing your code. You can just make it harder to read it. Have a search on 'obfuscator'.

[Paul Clapham]

However, if you are writing a web application, it is very unlikely that there will be a requirement to hide your code from the customer. On the contrary, normally there will be a requirement to make your source code available to the customer.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Anil,
Which source code are you trying to hide? You don't need to distribute the .java files. If you are distributing the .war to the client, they have to get the JSP and (possibly obfuscated) .class files. The end user only gets to see the generated HTML.