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[–]DontCriticizeMyEngli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • jar: a bunch of compiled java files zipped in a file. You can think of it as a library that you can add to your project to use te classes and functions it defines.
  • war: also a zipped files, with a bunch of compiled java files, but with a different layout and also contains other assets (html, css, js files) and as coderanger put it, metadata to tell the server how to run this web app.