deploying war and jar file ?

[Adam Adams]

could some one tell me the steps of deploying simple jar and war file .. is it just copy the jar file into ../common/lib directory only or do we need do more that that?
also, the war file is it just upload it into webapps dir too?
thanks

[Mike Curwen]

That's pretty much it. Then you need to restart Tomcat. It won't dynamically load war or jar files that it doesn't know about when it first starts up. It only dynamically *reloads*. At least it didn't the last time I checked, perhaps 4.1.x addresses this.

[Dez Max]

I've just placed my war files under webapps dir and started the tomcat but it didn't unpacked the war file to create a new application. I've tried setting context, unpackedwar to true in server.xml. Any idea?

[Mike Curwen]

closed.. please refer to https://coderanch.com/t/82175/Tomcat/webapps-war-file-not-deploying
for Fred's question.