maven webapp to place jsps in /WEB-INF/jsp

Question

I have inherited a webapp built using NetBean\'s internal ant.

All jsps reside in:

WEB-INF/jsp

And the web.xml has hardcoded links to /

Answer 1

What the problem? Let's look at a standard war project structure:

$ mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app \
> -DartifactId=my-webapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp
...
$ tree my-webapp/
my-webapp/
|-- pom.xml
`-- src
    `-- main
        |-- resources
        `-- webapp
            |-- WEB-INF
            |   `-- web.xml
            `-- index.jsp

5 directories, 3 files 

No need to configure anything, just put your JSPs under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp and there you go.

EDIT: I don't understand why you have the following line in your maven-war-plugin configuration:

${basedir}/web/WEB-INF

What is the expected behavior? Why don't you use the default value ${basedir}/src/main/webapp?