We are pleased to announce the Maven WAR Plugin 1.5 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/war/ War Plugin for Maven =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o Use the new callerplugin to isolate the java compilation goal called from its implementation. o Add war:inplace goal for building the webapp into maven.war.src. You should cvsignore WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes o Add target path to dependencies so you can copy to elsewhere than WEB-INF/lib. Useful for applets. Fixed bugs: o Fix for MAVEN-986. Allow resources to be copied when no sources present Fixes MAVEN-986. =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-war-plugin -Dversion=1.5 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-war-plugin-1.5.jar =============================================================================== Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven WAR Plugin should be submitted to the following issue tracking system: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPWAR Have fun! -The Maven WAR Plugin development team