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 Pete Marvin King
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 2013-07-22
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${project.name}

 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-mojo.html}war:war}} is the default goal invoked during the 
   <<<package>>> phase for projects with a packaging type of <<<war>>>. 
   It builds a WAR file.

 * {{{./exploded-mojo.html}war:exploded}} is generally used to speed up 
   testing during the developement phase by creating an exploded webapp 
   in a specified directory.

 * {{{./inplace-mojo.html}war:inplace}} another variation of <<<war:explode>>> 
   where the webapp is instead generated in the web application source directory, 
   which is <<<src/main/webapp>>> by default.

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* Hint for release 3.0.0

 The goal <<<war:manifest>>> has been removed
 cause it violated the principle generating files into <<<src/>>> folder.
 Furthermore everything can be done by using an appropriate configuration
 for the {{{./war-mojo.html#archive}war:war archive}}.

 The default value for <<<failOnMissingWebXml>>> has been changed from
 <<<true>>> to <<<false>>>.

* Usage

  General instructions on how to use the WAR Plugin can be found on the 
  {{{./usage.html}usage page}}. Some more specific use cases are described in the 
  examples given below. To share common resources across multiple web applications, 
  see the documentation about using {{{./overlays.html}overlays}}.

  In case you still have questions regarding the plugin's usage, please have a look at the 
  {{{./faq.html}FAQ}} and feel free to contact the {{{./mail-lists.html}user mailing list}}. 
  The posts to the mailing list are archived and could already contain the answer to your 
  question as part of an older thread. Hence, it is also worth browsing/searching
  the {{{./mail-lists.html}mail archive}}.

  If you feel like the plugin is missing a feature or has a defect, you can fill a 
  feature request or bug report in our {{{./issue-tracking.html}issue tracker}}. 
  When creating a new issue, please provide a comprehensive description of your
  concern. Especially for fixing bugs it is crucial that the developers can 
  reproduce your problem. For this reason, entire debug logs, POMs or most 
  preferably little demo projects attached to the issue are very much appreciated.
  Of course, patches are welcome, too. Contributors can check out the project from 
  our {{{./source-repository.html}source repository}} and will find supplementary 
  information in the
  {{{http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-helping.html}guide to helping with Maven}}.

* Examples

  To provide you with better understanding on some usages of the Maven WAR Plugin,
  you can take a look into the following examples:

 * {{{./examples/adding-filtering-webresources.html}Adding and Filtering External Web Resources}}

 * {{{./examples/war-manifest-guide.html}WAR Manifest Customization}}

 * {{{./examples/rapid-testing-jetty6-plugin.html}Rapid Testing the Jetty Plugin}}

 * {{{./examples/skinny-wars.html}Creating Skinny WARs}}

 * {{{./examples/including-excluding-files-from-war.html}Including and Excluding Files From the WAR}}

 * {{{./examples/file-name-mapping.html}Using File Name Mapping}}

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* Related links

  * {{{http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-archive-configuration.html}Exclusion of Maven Descriptors}}

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