how to make a war file

can anyone please tell me how to make
a war file?

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/WebComponents3.html

has a tutorial.

if possible can anyone explain me a
little how to make a war file thanks

What's wrong with the tutorial that Tom provided a link to?

just name your file name with extension .war

Ant can create a war file for you; here is the relevant excerpt from the Ant manual.

just name your file name with extension .war

It is customary to append a "

" to a post like this, so other people know you're joking.

go to the folder in which you have files to include in .war.
type-> jar -cvf pets.war *
Which means, "compress everything in this directory into a file named pets.war"
(c=create, v=verbose, f=file)

Or
If u want only some files, specify file names separated with ,(comma) in place of '*'.

sorry i forgot to mention :
you have to type "jar -cvf pets.war *" at command line.

i tried what you said:
"jar -cvf myWar.war"

but i got a message saying command" jar is unrecognized.
what am i missing?

my jar command is in C:\JBuilderX\jdk1.4\bin

but files and folders i want to archive are in:
C:\apimswebapps\apimsprdCTC007

what should i do?

Put C:\JBuilderX\jdk1.4\bin in your PATH.

i did jar-cvf -MyWar.war home.html WEB-INF;

it is not getting deployed on weblogic

how do it do it?

Is there a space after "jar"? Read this FAQ please.

I am really sorry.

There is a space

it is jar -cvf myWar.war home.html WEB-INF;

I am not able to deploy my war file after this?

That only created the WAR file. You must then upload it into Weblogic. I can't help you on that though; I use Tomcat myself.

prepare the war file :

suppose your deployment directory is "VoterApp" that is present in "d:\" then you go to that location from command prompt. After you type the below given....

d:\VoterApp>jar cf VoterApp.war .

here
c--->create war file
f---->specify the war file name
. --->dot represents the current directory.It tells us take everything of current directory and create war file of that aplication.
another precation is that you must give space between VoterApp.war and .(dot).

Welcome to the Ranch

Are you sure he is still trying to make that war file?