A Web Archive (WAR) file is a portable, packaged Web application
that you can import into your workspace.
Before importing a WAR file,
you should first determine if the WAR file contains needed Java™ source
files. When importing a WAR file into an existing Web project, the imported
Web deployment descriptor files are either not changed or overwritten by the
ones included in the imported WAR file, based on your response to the prompt
that is provided. In either case, this action does not represent a
merging of the two sets of deployment descriptors.
To import the
Web project resources in a WAR file into your workspace, complete the following
steps: