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

The only way I can think of to do what you want is to set use pom packaging (or create a custom packaging) and bind the required goals from the war packaging to the relevant phases of the lifecycle. If you go for pom packaging you can use define the war:war execution in a profile to allow you to package it, but you'll need to use the build-helper-maven-plugin attach-artifact goal to attach the war to the pom.

Note with this approach if you want to use any other war-specific processing it may cause you problems.

The lifecycle bindings for war packaging are listed in the Introduction to The Build Lifecycle (see the "Default Lifecycle Bindings - Packaging ejb / ejb3 / jar / par / rar / war" section).

To bind the relevant plugin executions to the pom packaging you would do as follows:

  
    
      maven-resources-plugin
      
        
          process-resources
          process-resources
          
            resources
          
        
      
    
    
      maven-compile-plugin
      
        
          compile
          compile
          
            compile
          
        
      
    
    
      maven-resources-plugin
      
        
          process-test-resources
          process-test-resources
          
            testResources
          
        
      
    
    
      maven-surefire-plugin
      
        
          test
          test
          
            test