You ignored this part of my post:
exactly what menu items or dialog buttons are you clicking on
So let me give you an example of what I mean. I have a Dynamic Web Project with a
servlet. I did the following:
1) Built the project: right-clicked the project, selected Build Project
2) Exported a WAR: File | Export | Web | WAR file
2a) In the WAR Export dialog, I gave a full path Destination (left the rest at the defaults)
The resulting WAR file contained:
* META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
* WEB-INF/classes/path /to/my/Servlet.class
So I have the .class files in my WAR.
Now how is what you are doing different from what I did?