What is WEB-INF used for in a Java EE web application?

I’m working on a Java EE web application with the following source code directory structure: src/main/java <– multiple packages containing Java classes src/test/java <– multiple packages containing JUnit tests src/main/resources <– includes properties files for textual messages src/main/webapp/resources <– includes CSS, images and all Javascript files src/main/webapp/WEB-INF src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/tags src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views The folder I’m interested in is … Read more