How to create a jar from part of my project that is packaged as a war

Question

I\'m a Maven newbie, so I apologize if this is something trivial. Basically, I am developing a webapp, and I am using Maven to manage the project. I have

Answer 1

Have you tried to generate the project with the mvn archetype:generate command? It builds you a fully working project structure for webapps with war packaging:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-webapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp