Hifile I am trying to deploy a java application running in tomcat into azure dev fabric. I have been able to do this. But I came to know that if we copy the war file as a blob, then deployment is much faster and we can also change the war file at any time. Refer: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/azuretomcat. However, when I tried to do this, I got the following error. Could anyone please sugest what