We are pleased to announce the Maven WAR Plugin 1.6.2 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/war/ War Plugin for Maven =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o Aded the ability to customize the Class-Path entry of the manifest Fixes MPWAR-43. o Added property maven.war.webxml.overwriteto control if the source web.xml overwrite the one in the generated webapp directory. Fixes MPWAR-52. Fixed bugs: o Manifest file is now generated properly. Fixes MPWAR-58. o Fixed confusing documentation regarding maven.war.classes.includes and excludes properties Fixes MPWAR-29. o License file is now added properly to the generated war Fixes MPWAR-32. o Remove reference to unused caller tag library to suppress warning Changes: o Added property maven.war.resources.overwriteto control is resources overwrites the ones in the generated webapp directory. Fixes MPWAR-49. o Added ability to expand properties when copying war resources. Fixes MPWAR-37. Thanks to Troy Poppe. o Updated wrong documentation regarding web.xml filtering. Fixes MPWAR-39. o Now filtering when copying resources. Fixes MPWAR-46. o Add support for EJB client code. Fixes MPWAR-50. =============================================================================== 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=1.6.2 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-war-plugin-1.6.2.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