Apache Ant War Task

Ant WAR (Web Archive) is an extension of Java Archive file. It is consist of library, classes etc and store into WEB-INF/lib, WEB-INF/classes folders.

Apache Ant WAR Attributes

Apache Ant WAR Task Nested Elements

lib

This element specifies a fileset. All the files are located in WEB-INF/lib folder of the created WAR.

classes

This element specifies a fileset of class files. After creating war, all the classes are located into WEB-INF/classes folder.

webinf

This nested element specifies a fileset. All the files are located into WEB-INF directory.

Apache Ant War Task Example

The above code will create a myapp.war file which has a file structure given below. The above code will create a myapp.war file which has a file structure given below.