web.xml is missing and is set to true

Question

Consider:

When I create a simple Maven project in Eclipse I am getting this error:

web.xml is missing and

Answer 1

For Project with web.xml present Project-->Properties-->Deployment Assembly,where you can add Folder src/main/webapp. Save change. Clean the project to get going.

For Project with web.xml not present Set failOnMissingWebXml to false in pom.xml under properties tag.