Originally posted by William Brogden:
WAR stands for Web Application Resource as I recall.
Close -- "Web Application Archive"
-- The Servlet spec gives it this definition:
A single file that contains all of the components of a web application. This archive file is created by using standard JAR tools which allow any or all of the web components to be signed.
A Web Application itself is:
-- A collection of servlets,
JSP pages, HTML documents and other web resources which might include images, files, compressed archives, and other data. A web application may be packaged into an archive or exist in an open directory structure.
Check out this tutorial from the HP Application Server documentation for more info -->
Chapter 4, Developing Web Components