Extracting .war files

zakidad · 07-14-2005, 05:16 AM

Hi all.
I found out in the manual of some softwares requires extracting .WAR files.
Can any one tell me how to extract a .war files?
Thanks

bathory · 07-14-2005, 05:47 AM

.war is a zipped file, so you can use unzip to extract it's contents.

Regards

fhleung · 11-12-2007, 11:43 PM

Web Archive (WAR) files can be unpacked/extract by java archiving tool jar command

Code:

#jar -xvf webApplicationfilename.war

jschiwal · 11-12-2007, 11:51 PM

If it was produced by konqueror, the it is a gzip archive:

Code:

file ONLamp.com\ --\ Customizing\ X\ Window\ An\ Introduction.war
ONLamp.com -- Customizing X Window An Introduction.war: gzip compressed data, was "", from Unix, last modified: Wed Nov  7 00:15:14 2007

You can extract the archive with tar: tar xvzf archive.war
The f option needs to precede the file argument. Tar is an old program, written before dashes were used for arguments, so they are optional.