How to extract war file in java

[rajasri]

Today we are going to learn how to extract war file in java.
War files are important in deploying the web applications.It is a web-archive file bundled with all classes,jsp files,jar files etc.
We already saw a tutorial about how to create a war file.
After extracting war file we can paste the folder to the webapps folder of tomcat to run it.
To extract in command prompt

jar xvf filename.war

To extract a single file or a file starts with single letter

jar xvf filename.war s

this extract all files starts with s

Happy coding.