Technobabble

What’s a war deployment, do I need my own army?

When it comes to deploying an web based application we have a few options on the table. Well only one really if you stick to J2EE standards, not counting Ear deployments which also deploy web apps via wars. Outside the world of J2EE though, it becomes a crap shoot based on the web framework you’re using. So what’s a war look like?

webapp.war
	|-- images/
	|   `-- banner.jpg
	|-- index.html
	|-- jsps/
	|   |-- public/
	|   |   `-- login.jsp
	|   `-- private/
	|       |-- application.jsp
	|

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