I have a question regarding the web-inf folder creation. If we are not using an alias,why do we still need this folder to be created.What is the logic behind it. when we dont use a deployment descriptor,why do we need this folder. does it not work without creating this empty folder.
Thanks for your reply and time.<br />Windows 2000,j2sdk1.4.2_08
When an application is deployed, the container has a series of steps it has to go through. Most of them involve looking for files under that directory.
For containers like Tomcat, the existence of that dir, signals that the current folder is a webapp.