On 07/11/2013 03:23 PM, Fernando Nasser wrote: >> Because of the above, installation of WAR files is not supported out >> of >> the box, but it still can be done. There are several packages >> installing WARs in non-standard way (for example thermostat or bsh). > > The issue is just JAR files inside the WAR file. > If it is a WAR file with no other archives hidden inside it can be considered OKish. In this case you can create RPM with unpacked WAR file. Application servers usually unpack WARs anyways. If symlinks inside WAR files were supported then one could repack them and replace bundled libraries with symbolic links. But that's not portable. -- Mikolaj Izdebski Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel