Apache Tomcat is a servlet engine that runs Java web applications, which are packaged as web application archive files, or WARs. A WAR file is the one that’s deployed to Tomcat, not a JAR file. But, ...

Within a short time (15-30 seconds), Tomcat will notice the WAR file, will unpack it, and will deploy the application. If the application has already been deployed and a newer WAR file is dropped in, ...

Since the basic Tomcat server does not support JAX-RS, a straightforward deployment of a JAX-RS based application will fail. But, that doesn't mean you can't create JAX-RS web services in Eclipse and ...