What does WEB-INF stand for in a Java EE web application?

Asked 2009-03-28T15:49:48.490

Most of the places on the internet say it stands for WEB INFormation.

I rather doubt it. The folder contains executables. Information is not a suitable name for it.

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It's a directory to store private application content. Anything your app needs but your client doesn't can be stored there. Anything in that directory is not visible to the web.

Source:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/appdev/source.html#Directory_Structure http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs70/webapp/basics.html#136976

answered 2013-07-02T23:53:03.947

What does WEB-INF stand for in a Java EE web application?

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