Differentiate between .ear, .jar and .war files.

Answer: These files are simply zipped file using java jar tool. These files are created for different purposes. Here is the description of these files:

.jar files: These files are with the .jar extenstion. The .jar files contains the libraries, resources and accessories files like property files.

.war files: These files are with the .war extension. The war file contains the web application that can be deployed on the any servlet/jsp container. The .war file contains jsp, html, javascript and other files for necessary for the development of web applications.

.ear files: The .ear file contains the EJB modules of the application.

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