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:
