How to configure custom maven project structure

Question

I know that typically maven structure is like this:

 pom.xml
 src
   - main
   - web
    - WEB-INF

However, I have a project which has the

Answer 1

You can configure the maven-war-plugin to use another warSourceDirectory but as Jeff Storey explains in his answer it is really not recommended.

This is how you would do it:

    ...
    
        
            
                maven-war-plugin
                2.3
                
                    web
                
            
        
    
    ...

One of several problems is for example that the maven-jetty-plugin will not run out-of-the-box. It will by default look in src/main/webapp so that has to be configured.

You might not use the maven-jetty-plugin but you get the idea.