WAR Product Configuration

A WAR product configuration defines and manages all aspects of an WAR product. This file is a development-time file supported by PDE only and is neither interpreted nor read by the runtime.

The New WAR Product Configuration wizard is available under Open the WAR product configuration wizard File > New > Other... > Plug-in Development > WAR Product Configuration from the top level menu.

WAR Product Wizard

File Name and Location

The only restriction is that the WAR product configuration must have a .warproduct file extension. The product configuration can be placed in any project and any folder.

Initial File Content

A WAR product configuration can be initialized in one of two ways:

  1. Create a configuration file with basic settings: With this option, you get a product configuration with minimal content which you can incrementally start to define.
  2. Use a launch configuration: This option should be chosen if you already have a launch configuration that contains all the settings you want in your WAR product (e.g. product ID, list of plug-ins, etc.). PDE will use all the launch configuration settings to pre-populate the WAR product configuration.