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Create War using Ant Build File
October 9, 2016
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Create War using Ant Build File

Creating WAR files with Ant is extremely simple, and very similar to the creating JAR files task. After all, WAR file, like JAR file is just another ZIP file. Here we will show you how to use Ant build script to manage a web application project, create a WAR file and deploy to Tomcat.

The WAR task is an extension to the JAR task.

Attributes for WAR Task-

  • webxml->Path to the web.xml file
  • lib-> A grouping to specify what goes into the WEB-INFlib folder.
  • classes-> A grouping to specify what goes into the WEB-INFclasses folder.
  • metainf-> Specifies the instructions for generating the MANIFEST.MF file.

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!