Deploying a WAR to the installed web feature
About this task
The following steps will describe how to install a simple WAR file (with JSPs or Servlets) to the just installed web feature.
Procedure
- To deploy a WAR (JSP or Servlet) to Jetty, update its MANIFEST.MF to include the required OSGi headers as described here: http://ops4j.github.io/pax/web/6.x/User-Guide.html#war-extender
- Copy the updated WAR (archive or extracted files) to the deploy directory.
Results
If you want to deploy a sample web application into Karaf, you could use the following command:
karaf@trun> bundle:install -s webbundle:http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/appdev/sample/sample.war?Bundle-SymbolicName=tomcat-sample&Webapp-Context=/sample
Then open your web browser and point to http://localhost:8181/sample/index.html.