How to unpackage and repackage a WAR file

java maven web-applications jboss7.x war
Vinoth Kumar C M picture Vinoth Kumar C M · Oct 9, 2013 · Viewed 166.1k times · Source

I have a WAR file. I would like to open it, edit an XML file, remove some jars and then re-package it.

I used WINRAR to open the WAR file and I removed some Jars and did an 'Add to Archive' in WinRar and created a WAR.

When I deployed the WAR in jboss folder, I got an exception.

   16:05:14,316 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) 
   MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."myapplication.war".
   STRUCTURE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in 
   service   jboss.deployment.unit."myapplication.war".STRUCTURE: 
   Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment "myapplication.war"

How do I repackage the WAR ?

Answer

Juned Ahsan picture Juned Ahsan · Oct 9, 2013

you can update your war from the command line using java commands as mentioned here:

jar -uvf test.war yourclassesdir

Other useful commands:

Command to unzip/explode the war file

jar -xvf test.war

Command to create the war file

jar -cvf test.war yourclassesdir

Eg:

jar -cvf test.war *
jar -cvf test.war WEB-INF META-INF

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