How to create Beer-V1 war

[satya mahapatra]

Hi. I am able to run the Beer-V1 application. But I want to create a Beer-V1 war file and deploy the same in tomcat.

Can anybody help in this.

[Ben Souther]

A war file is nothing more than a zip file with a ".war" extension.

To do this with Java's jar command, cd to the root directory of your webapp and type:

jar -cvf c:\myApp.war *

This will create a war file named myApp.war in the root of your C drive.

To deploy in Tomcat, just move that war file to your webapps directory.

[satya mahapatra]

Hi Ben,
Normally my application is workin fine. But when I created the war file and deployed the same in webapps of tomcat it sin't running. Do
I need to give any entries in any of the web.xml file. Or anywhere else I
need to change?

Thanks,
satya

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Tomcat looks for war in webapps folder.It its not able to deploy the web application then you would get exceptions in Tomcat log.What is tomcat log saying ?
You can even see in the following folder to check whether tomcat was able to unjar the war or not.

TOMCAT_HOME\work\Catalina\localhost

[Ben Souther]

First look to the logs in tomcat/logs to see what, if anything is going wrong.

In cases like this I like to stop Tomcat, delete all the log files in tomcat/logs, then start it up and try to deploy the app.

This way you won't have to sift through reams of old logging messages to find what's relevant.

[satya mahapatra]

Hi Rahul/Ben,

Your guess is correct. Tomcat isn't able to unjar the war file. I checked at the location you specified. TOMCAT_HOME\work\Catalina\localhost.

Log File:

2007-05-03 17:54:40 StandardContext[/balancer]org.apache.webapp.balancer.BalancerFilter: init(): ruleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.RuleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.URLStringMatchRule: Target string: News / Redirect URL: http://www.cnn.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.RequestParameterRule: Target param name: paramName / Target param value: paramValue / Redirect URL: http://www.yahoo.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.AcceptEverythingRule: Redirect URL: http://jakarta.apache.org]]
2007-05-03 17:54:41 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: contextInitialized()
2007-05-03 17:54:41 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener: contextInitialized()
2007-05-03 17:54:41 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: contextInitialized()
2007-05-03 17:54:41 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]SessionListener: contextInitialized()

I didn't get anything from this logo file. If you have any clues where I am going wrongthen please help.