Generate war file from tomcat webapp folder

Question

I have a tomcat server working, and there I have a webapp folder my_web_app.

I didn\'t deploy the project; I only have that folder of that application (

Answer 1

Its just like creating a WAR file of your project, you can do it in several ways (from Eclipse, command line, maven).

If you want to do from command line, the command is

jar -cvf my_web_app.war * 

Which means, "compress everything in this directory into a file named my_web_app.war" (c=create, v=verbose, f=file)