(Quick Reference) ## war ### Purpose The `war` command creates a Web Application Archive (WAR) file which can be deployed on any Java EE compliant application server. ### Examples
    grails war
    grails test war
    grails -Dgrails.env=staging war
### Description Usage:
    grails <<environment>>* war <<arguments>>*
By default the `war` command creates a web application archive (WAR) file using the application name and version number. The `war` command is different from most commands since it runs in the production environment by default instead of development, but like any script the environment can be specified using the standard convention:
    grails test war
    grails dev war
    grails prod war
You can also specify a custom environment:
    grails -Dgrails.env=UAT war
Once the WAR has been created you can deploy it to your container using its standard WAR deployment process.
| Grails 2.x `war` command allowed you to supply the argument `nojars` - which packaged the WAR with no jar files. In Grails 3.x, this argument is no longer available. Instead, you may use Gradle capabilities to generate a WAR without jar files. One option would be to set your dependencies as `providedCompile` and `providedRuntime`. Those two configurations have the same scope as the respective compile and runtime configurations, except that they are not added to the WAR archive. Check Gradle WAR Plugin documentation for more information.
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