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My contention is that you can't explain "just copy my war file into your webapps folder" without

• first training him into a Java developer
• and then teaching him the full Servlet Specification
• and then showing him how a war file is really a jar file in disguise
• and then how a jar file is nothing but a zip file
• and that a zip file is sort of like a directory
• and that the webapps folder is inside your servlet container
• and that the servlet container will unzip your war file and put the result into a directory whose name is the same as the war file without the war extension
• and that that directory name is really your context
• and that the context is really something that you put at the end of your URL

In other words, forget about it.