Introduction

A Web application is a collection of:

• Servlets

• JSPs

• Utility classes

• Static documents (HTML, images, sounds, and so on)

• Client-side Java applets, and classes

Descriptive metadata ties these elements together. A Web application represents a subset of the files available on a Web server. Each Web application has a:

• Context path – forms a prefix for URLs that access the JSPs, servlets, and static pages. For example, http://myhost/Finance.

• Deployment directory – a directory in the server’s file system where the Web application’s files are deployed. In EAServer, the deployment directory for Web application wapp is this subdirectory in your EAServer installation:

  /deploy/webapps/wapp