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		KenCochrane on June 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why isn't Java used for modern web application dev... You deployed jars for web applications? War files are not JavaEE, you might be thinking of EAR files. A war file is just a jar file with a different name and manifest, and expects a few things, WEB-INF directory with a web.xml and that is about it. More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAR_file_format_(Sun)

swah on June 11, 2012 [–]

Sorry for my mistake, I associate WAR files with Application containers like JBoss and (IIRC) Tomcat. I only deployed with embedded jetty :)

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