How can I build WAR with Maven in Eclipse?

Question

I have project that I\'m now starting as Maven project, but for some reason it is not working. Here is my pom.xml:

Answer 1

Actually, your POM looks a bit weird:

• it is missing the right packaging for a webapp project.
• the maven war plugin configuration doesn't look right, you just don't need the extra stuff you added.

Here is what a minimal pom looks like:

  4.0.0
  com.mycompany.app
  my-webapp
  war
  1.0-SNAPSHOT
  
    
      junit
      junit
      3.8.1
      test
    
  
  
    my-webapp
  

So either modify it and update the project configuration (right-click on your project then Maven > Update Project Configuration).

Or just start over and create your project using the maven-archetype-webapp. You can do this from Eclipse: New > Project... > Maven Project, then select the maven-archetype-webapp in the wizzard and follow the seps.

Or from the command line:

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