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

As far as I know (I'm still new to maven) this is not possible. The only default lifecycle you can skip is 'test'. In order to get to the deploy you have to package. You can read all about the default lifecycle order of execution here: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html#Lifecycle_Reference