WAR Converter

Convert WAR files online for free


Drop or upload your .WAR file
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How to convert your WAR file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WAR file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert WAR to another file type

The converter easily converts your WAR file to various formats - free and online. No WinRAR or extra software needed.

  • WAR to ZIP
  • WAR to JAR
  • WAR to RAR
  • WAR to 7Z
  • WAR to TAR
  • WAR to GZ
  • WAR to BZ2
  • WAR to XZ
  • WAR to LZMA
  • WAR to CAB
  • WAR to ACE
  • WAR to ARJ

Convert a file to WAR

The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Developer formats to WAR with high quality output.

  • XXE to WAR
  • 7Z to WAR
  • Z to WAR
  • PAK to WAR
  • LHA to WAR
  • DEB to WAR
  • UUE to WAR
  • TAR to WAR
  • LZH to WAR
  • ZIP to WAR
  • PKG to WAR
  • RAR to WAR

About WAR files

A .WAR file (Web Application Archive) is a compressed package used to distribute a collection of JavaServer Pages, Java servlets, Java classes, XML files, and static web pages to a server. While highly efficient for deploying applications to servlet containers like Apache Tomcat or Jetty, the format presents significant barriers for direct access. Because it is a binary archive, users cannot simply double-click to view the code, modify configuration files (like web.xml), or extract assets (images, CSS) without specialized tools. Furthermore, running a .WAR file requires a configured runtime environment, making it inaccessible to non-developers.

To overcome these accessibility hurdles, the best solution is often to convert or extract the .WAR file. For inspection and editing of assets, converting the extension to ZIP allows immediate access via standard operating system tools. For enterprise deployment involving EJB modules, repackaging as an EAR (Enterprise Archive) is common. Developers looking to reuse utility classes within the archive may convert specific internal structures to JAR files.

Convert.Guru analyzes your WAR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted RAR, EAR, ZIP, VAR, WEBARCHIVE, MP3, JAVA, GZ, HTML, JSP, JAR, DOCX and PDF files.



The WAR Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our WAR converter.