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

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) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAR_file_format_(Sun)