WAR files

A WAR file (Web Application Resource or Web application ARchive) is a file used to distribute a collection of JAR-files, JavaServer Pages, Java Servlets, Java classes, XML files, tag libraries, static web pages (HTML and related files) and other resources that together constitute a web application. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAR_(file_format) 

Veiwing Contents of a WAR file

jar tvf warfilename.war