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

Use maven-jar-plugin, see :

• http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/usage.html

Example:

    
        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-jar-plugin
                    
                        
                             **/service/*
                        
                    
        
            
                make-a-jar
                compile
                
                    jar