Web applications can be packaged and signed, using the standard Java archive tools, into a Web ARchive format (WAR) file. For example, an application for issue tracking could be distributed in an archive with the filename issuetrack.war . When packaged into such a form, a META-INF directory will be present which contains information useful to the Java archive tools. If this directory is present, the servlet container must not allow it be served as content to a web client's request. |