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Chapter 9. Deploying a GWT Application > Building a project and creating the WA...
Building a project and creating the WAR file
The building process of the GWT application includes creating the web directory structure, compiling Java files to class files, copying library files, compiling GWT client-side code, and creating the WAR files.
Getting ready
Before starting to deploy, we need to create the WAR file containing all the required project files. "WAR" stands for "Web Application Archive". WAR is a JAR file that contains the Java classes, Java Server Pages, Servlets, library files, static web pages, and so on, as necessary. The WAR file is used to distribute the application files in a single file. In this recipe, we are going to create the WAR file for our GWT application using the NetBeans IDE.
