JAR,EAR,WAR files

[mah kumar]

hi all,
while deploying our application in a web server we come across files such as WAR,JAR,EAR...
i want to know the reason why we go for such files???and the details behind the WEB-INF directory structure???
thank you
regards
mah

[somkiat puisungnoen]

I think , WAR, EAR,JAR file is very important for test/development/installation . It's easy to use to deploy in all Web Server and Application SErver.

[parthiban subramaniam]

Those are standard application archive files,
Since they are a standard any application server (at least in theory) will know how to unpack and deploy them so that clients can access your application. Makes it easy to deploy your application if it is any one of these files WAR or EAR
WAR is for web,
JAR is standard for packaging your classes and it's resources.
ear is for J2ee application archive which can have jar's as well as war's in them.
WEB-INF again is a standard where you place your application specific 3rd party jars in WEB-INF/lib nad WEB-INF/classes will have your application classes.
JAR, WAR, EAR or kind of zip files where everything you need is zipped up
Hope that helps

Cheers,
Parthi

[Natarajan Shankar]

Hello,
You split class files and have things organized.

Normal Java Files and supporting File - JAR
JAR+WEB Componenets (JSP/HTML/SErvlet)- WAR
WAR+JAR - EAR

WEB-INF this directory will contain Web information. Will contain
/lib
/classes
web.xml file