Create the Deployment-Ready Archive

Finally, create an archive that includes your application and its manifest.json file, if present, at the root. Use a zip or tar utility.

You don’t need to include a Java EE web application in a .zip, .tgz, or .tar.gz file unless you need to set values in the manifest.json file, which is optional for this application type.

Don’t include deployment.json in your compressed archive.

For example, create an archive called myapp.zip using zip.

zip myapp.zip manifest.json myapp.jar

Here’s an example using tar command.

tar cvfz myapp.tgz manifest.json myapp.jar