Create installer for java web application (linux and Windows)

Question

How to create installer for web application to run on both Windows and Linux? I need no more than extact some jar, jsp and xml files into a chosen directory. (Web server and database should be already installed, when our app is installed) There can be two output files - one for Windows, one for Linux.

Answer 1

http://izpack.org/ is a fully-fledged cross-platform java installer-generator, and it's awesome.

But I'm not sure you need that exactly ..

I think, maybe, you just want a .war file? (i.e. a web application archive)

Here's an old article about war files:

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/1_3-fcs/doc/WCC3.html

Answer 2

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