Web application deployment for Tomcat

A web application is a dynamic extension of a web or application server. ArcGIS Spatial Data Server for Java is a RESTful web application that uses a stateless client-server architecture in which the web services are viewed as resources and can be identified by their URLs.

To deploy the ArcGIS Spatial Data Server, your web or application server must access the arcgis.war file.

Copy the arcgis.war file into the directory $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/. When Tomcat is started, it will automatically expand the web application archive file into its unpacked form, and execute the application.