Today's Task: Explain Just Copy My War File Into Your Webapps Folder
My contention is that you can't explain "just copy my war file into your webapps folder" without
- first training him into a Java developer
- and then teaching him the full Servlet Specification
- and then showing him how a war file is really a jar file in disguise
- and then how a jar file is nothing but a zip file
- and that a zip file is sort of like a directory
- and that the webapps folder is inside your servlet container
- and that the servlet container will unzip your war file and put the result into a directory whose name is the same as the war file without the war extension
- and that that directory name is really your context
- and that the context is really something that you put at the end of your URL
In other words, forget about it.