I have searched around and haven't found anything very specific. I know that it should sit outside the war. My application is built on Spring and works under Tomcat. Should the directory location stay within Tomcat /opt/tomcat or can I put it in /var/www/projectname (I prefer the latter)?
Might be over analyzing but I would much rather learn the convention then to create something new. I think by default it puts me in tomcats bin folder.