Maven WAR Plugin
The war plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive.
Goals Overview
- war:war
is the default goal invoked during the package phase for projects with a package type of war.
- war:exploded
is generally used to speed up testing during the developement phase by creating an exploded war in a specified directory.
- war:inplace
another variation of the war:explode where the war is instead generated in the web source directory which is src/main/webapp
by default.
Usage
Instructions on how to use the Maven WAR Plugin can be found here
. Specific documentation regarding overlays can be found here
Examples
To provide you with better understanding on some usages of the Maven WAR Plugin, you can take a look into the following examples:
