here is the structure of my war file.
MyApp.war
WEB-INF
classes/com/info/App.java
classes/application.properties
lib/
META-INF
test
just before deployment of this war to tomcat, Ops team will need to update the application.properties file.
I prefer not to explode. but just to update the war and leave for tomcat to explode during start up
I tried this
jar uvf MyApp.war /var/data/prod/application.properties
After I executed this command, I see a new file being added at root level of MyApp.war. but I want WEB-INF/classes/application.properties
to be replaced this one. How can I do it.
I don't believe that it is the good approach anyway, you should externalize your configuration file as it will change from one env to another, so it should not be part of your archive. You should adapt your code to be able to read the configuration of your application from an external folder. Your Ops team will then have the same war
to deploy on all env instead of one per env, which is much less error prone.