RE: creating empty jars ...

[Steve Wilkinson]

>I don't put webdir under WEB-INF because that's not the way web apps are
>deployed according to the 2.2 servlet specs. 

Oh Really?  

My spec reads in Section 9.4 on page 44
The contents of the WEB-INF directory are:
- WEB-INF/web.xml     deployment descriptor
- WEB-INF/classes/*   servlets and other utility classes
- WEB-INF/lib /*.jar  jar archives