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

Create the war file in a different directory to where the content is otherwise the jar command might try to zip up the file it is creating.

#!/bin/bash

set -euo pipefail

war=app.war
src=contents

# Clean last war build
if [ -e ${war} ]; then
    echo "Removing old war ${war}"
    rm -rf ${war}
fi

# Build war
if [ -d ${src} ]; then
    echo "Found source at ${src}"
    cd ${src}
    jar -cvf ../${war} *
    cd ..
fi

# Show war details
ls -la ${war}