Maven: Customize web.xml of web-app project

Question

I have a web application Maven project, and I want to customize the web.xml file depending on the Profile that is running. I am using the Maven-War-plugin, which allows me

Answer 1

A new configuration was added to maven-war-plugin in version 2.1-alpha-2. Its name is filteringDeploymentDescriptors and it does exacly what you want.

This works:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-war-plugin
    2.4
    
        true
    

And this also works:

    true

More information is available in the official documentation of filteringDeploymentDescriptors.