Common Services: question about war files

Products

• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS

Issue/Introduction

In the documentation Common Services for z/OS 15.0 in the chapter :

Deploy and Configure CCS Apache Tomcat, this step describes :

3. Deploy product WAR Files

A product might deliver a WAR file in its installation. Use the following JCL to copy the WAR file into the CCS Apache Tomcat instance.

What is a WAR file?

What is the meaning for those kind of files ?

Environment

Common Services 14.1 & 15.0 - z/OS supported releases - 

 

Resolution

A WAR file (Web Application Resource or Web application archive) is a file used to distribute a collection of JAR-files, JavaServer Pages, Java Servlets, Java classes, XML files, tag libraries, static web pages (HTML and related files) and other resources that together constitute a web application.

Additional Information

Reference the IBM documentation for the definition and details of a WAR file