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No, tomcat doesn't only deply .war files.  It can also deploy an 
expanded web application as long as the layout conforms to the spec.  
Regarding the OPs original question, the servlet spec is the best place 
for the info.

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr154/index.html

--David

David Brown wrote:

>Tomcat only deploys (dot).war files. Or if you want to manually deploy you can create the application directory yourself under the Tomcat webapps directory and upzip the (dot).war or populate the directory structure with the right classes, jars, html and jsp yourself:
>
>TOMCAT_HOME\webapps\yourwebapp\WEB-INF\classes\lib
>
>There's more: you need to take a look at the tomcat.jarakta.apache.org doco.
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>where TOMCAT_HOME may or may not be an environment variable depending on platform that is the root of the Tomcat installation. HTH.
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>polock wrote ..
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>>Dear all,
>>I have few java packages that I would like to put on Tomcat, I was searching
>>intensively on the web how one does this but I could not find concrete
>>consrtuction. Code within packages contains servlets that process get
>>requests, so I do not need to change anything in the code all I need to do
>>is to put in the right place in tomcat. Could you reffer me to some web -
>>source where this is explained or can you give me some tipps as to how I
>>should proceed.
>>Thanks
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