<p>Is there a way to deploy a given war file on Tomcat server? I want to do this without using the web interface.</p>

you can edit the conf/server.xml and add an entry like this pointing to your war directory
```
```
<Context path="/strutsDisplayTag" 
        reloadable="true" 
        docBase="C:\work\learn\jsp\strutsDisplayTag" 
        workDir="C:\work\learn\jsp\strutsDisplayTag\work" />
```
```
ELSE
 you can copy your .WAR file to the webapps directory of tomcat.