How to get Maven to run war:exploded but not war:war

Question

I have a Maven pom that uses war. But actually, I don\'t want build the war-file, I just want all the dependent jars collect

Answer 1

I would like to upgrade onto @Michael Wyraz answer and just include install skip settings in case if someone executes mvn clean install build on top level of multimodule project and one of sub-module is web application.

This stands inside war module:

    
        war_explode
        
            
                
                    
                        org.apache.maven.plugins
                        maven-war-plugin
                        2.6
                        
                            
                                default-war
                                none
                            
                            
                                war-exploded
                                package
                                
                                    exploded
                                
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        org.apache.maven.plugins
                        maven-install-plugin
                        
                            
                                default-install
                                none
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

Without install skip build fails as it tries to install war into .m2 folder. Error message looks like this:

[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.4:install (default-install) @ *** ---
[INFO]   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.4:install (default-install) on project ***: The packaging for this project did not assign a file to the build artifact -> [Help 1]

Executing mvn clean install -P war_explode with this settings (enclosed in maven profile named war_explode) it finishes build without error.