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Most server-side Java applications (e.g. web or service-oriented) are intended to run within a container.  The traditional way to package these apps for distribution is to bundle them as a WAR file.  This is nothing more than a ZIP archive with a standard directory layout, containing all of libraries and application-level dependencies needed at runtime.  […]