diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8f9ab4fa..fdb29ef3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ This is the API project of [Open Hospital][openhospital]: it exposes a REST API
   * [How to build [WIP]](#how-to-build-wip)
     + [Using Swagger-UI](#using-swagger-ui)
     + [Using Postman](#using-postman)
+  * [How to build a war file](#how-to-build-a-war-file)
   * [How to deploy backend in docker environment](#how-to-deploy-backend-in-docker-environment)
   * [How to generate openapi specs](#how-to-generate-openapi-specs)
   * [Cleaning](#cleaning)
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ For the moment, to build this project you should
         rsc/database.properties
         rsc/log4j2-spring.properties
         rsc/...
- 
+        
  4. set target/rsc/database.properties
  
         DB can be created with `docker-compose up` from `openhospital-core` or using a dedicated MySQL server
@@ -94,6 +95,40 @@ You can see Swagger API Documentation at: http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index
 
  1. import postman_collection.json in your Postman installation
  
+## How to build a war file
+
+ 1. Prepare settings from each `rsc/*.dist` file 
+
+ ```
+ ### Note: 
+ ### server.address, server.port, server.servlet.context-path and server.tomcat.accesslog.* will be ignored
+ ### jwt.token.secret <- set a SHA-256 jwt token
+ ### api.host <- set to openhospital-api-0.1.0 (<artifactId>-<version>) or any <appname> that will match <appname>.war
+ rsc/application.properties
+ 
+ ### note: if the DB is on the host, use 'host.docker.internal' as hostname
+ rsc/database.properties
+ 
+ ### note: if the DB is on the host, use 'host.docker.internal' as DBSERVER
+ rsc/log4j2-spring.properties
+ 
+ ### as required in [Admin Doc](https://github.com/informatici/openhospital-doc/blob/develop/doc_admin/AdminManual.adoc#settings-properties)
+ rsc/settings.properties
+ ```
+ 
+ 2. Build war file
+ 
+ ```
+ ### OH-core must have been built and available in .m2 (Maven) repo
+ ./mvnw clean install -DskipTests=true -P war
+ ```
+ 
+ 3. (Optional) rename war to the desired `<appname>.war`:
+ 
+ ```
+ mv /target/openhospital-api-0.1.0.war <appname>.war
+ ```
+ 
 ## How to deploy backend in Docker environment
 
 Make sure you have docker with docker-compose installed, then run the following commands:
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d61d2c0d..cd05f153 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,13 +8,16 @@
         <version>3.3.5</version>
         <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
     </parent>
+
     <groupId>org.isf</groupId>
     <artifactId>openhospital-api</artifactId>
     <version>0.1.0</version>
+    <packaging>${packaging.type}</packaging>
     <name>openhospital-api</name>
     <description>Open Hospital Spring Boot REST API</description>
 
     <properties>
+        <packaging.type>jar</packaging.type>
         <oh-core.version>1.14.2-SNAPSHOT</oh-core.version>
         <java.version>17</java.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -31,16 +34,9 @@
                     <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                     <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
-            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jetty</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
@@ -308,6 +304,32 @@
                 </plugins>
             </build>
         </profile>
+        <profile>
+            <id>war</id>
+            <properties>
+                <packaging.type>war</packaging.type>
+            </properties>
+            <dependencies>
+                <dependency>
+                    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
+                    <scope>provided</scope>
+                </dependency>
+            </dependencies>
+			<build>
+                <resources>
+                    <resource>
+                        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                    </resource>
+                    <resource>
+                        <directory>rsc</directory>
+                        <includes>
+                            <include>**/*.properties</include>
+                        </includes>
+                        <filtering>false</filtering>
+                    </resource>
+                </resources>
+            </build>
+        </profile>
     </profiles>
-
 </project>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/isf/OpenHospitalApiApplication.java b/src/main/java/org/isf/OpenHospitalApiApplication.java
index 80d9337e..3fd89e11 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/isf/OpenHospitalApiApplication.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/isf/OpenHospitalApiApplication.java
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;
 import org.springframework.boot.context.ApplicationPidFileWriter;
+import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
@@ -35,7 +37,7 @@
 
 @ImportResource({ "classpath*:/applicationContext.xml" })
 @SpringBootApplication
-public class OpenHospitalApiApplication {
+public class OpenHospitalApiApplication extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
 
 	@Autowired
 	private ObjectMapper objectMapper;
@@ -52,4 +54,9 @@ public void setUp() {
 		GeneralData.getGeneralData(); // initialize core settings
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
+		return application.sources(OpenHospitalApiApplication.class);
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/isf/medicalstockward/rest/MedicalStockWardController.java b/src/main/java/org/isf/medicalstockward/rest/MedicalStockWardController.java
index 897334a4..0f8627b2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/isf/medicalstockward/rest/MedicalStockWardController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/isf/medicalstockward/rest/MedicalStockWardController.java
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public MedicalStockWardController(
 	 * @throws OHServiceException When failed to get ward medicals
 	 */
 	@GetMapping(value = "/medicalstockward/{ward_code}")
-	public List<MedicalWardDTO> getMedicalsWard(@PathVariable("ward_code") char wardId) throws OHServiceException {
+	public List<MedicalWardDTO> getMedicalsWard(@PathVariable("ward_code") String wardId) throws OHServiceException {
 		// FIXME: provide provision for boolean ,false?
 		List<MedicalWard> medWards = movWardBrowserManager.getMedicalsWard(wardId, true);