Can you pick up the source from a tomcat-deployed application?

Can you extract source from tomcat application? 开发者_运维知识库The webapp is not deployed as a .war file, it's a bunch of directories, xmls, configurations, .class files, .jars and stuff.

Your comments to Paul Tomblin indicate you already have access to the server. As he said, if you didn't upload the source to start with (which is normal), you can't get it off the server. However, there are a couple of things to note:

• Unless you compiled your JSPs prior to uploading, they will contain their own source code and you can download them for use in another project or whatever it is you're trying to do
• If you're desperate, you can decompile the .class files using something like JD (http://java.decompiler.free.fr). The decompiled code will not include comments and is not always spot-on, but it will get you much further than you are now.

You don't have to put the source code on your web server, just the compiled class files. So no, if the source isn't on the server, nobody can "pick it up". In a normal configuration, I don't think it's possible even to download the individual class files, but it might be possible if you put your Tomcat webapps directory somewhere where your normal web server (Apache) can find them.