I am trying to create a war file that will be deployed on a web/application server.
The source files of the app are purely HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. There is a separat
If you are creating a war file, then you are deploying on a Java based web application server, something like Tomcat or Wildfly.
If you are using eclipse, you can do so by New > Dynamic Web Project
(maybe name it foo-bar), click next, next and finish. Then open that foo-bar project and create your css and js folders under WebContent like so.
\WebContent\css
\WebContent\js
\WebContent\index.html
\WebContent\foo-bar.html
You can right click the foo-bar project > Export > Web WAR file
.
When you deploy it on say Tomcat, you can test to access your static content like so
http://localhost:8080/foo-bar/css/foo-bar.css
http://localhost:8080/foo-bar/js/foo-bar.js
http://localhost:8080/foo-bar/foo-bar.html
Hope this helps.