Spring RESTful Service as a WAR instead of JAR in Tomcat

Question

I am in the process of creating a REST web service in Java Spring. I\'ve successfully loaded STS and the example detailed at :

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Answer 1

A WAR is just a JAR with special properites. It needs to have a WEB-INF, under which you need a web.xml to describe your deployment, any app server dependentXML configuration files, and usually a lib, classes, and other odds and ends.

The easiest way would be to use Maven to create your WAR. I think you should be able to simply change the project type in the pom.xml from JAR to WAR. The tutorial you followed seems to use Gradle, which in turn uses Maven I believe, so you should have one there somewhere. Other than that, google for tutorials on how to construct a WAR. I don't believe that Tomcat requires any special deployment descriptors, so you should only need the web .xml.