Why is maven-war-plugin failing for web.xml missing if I configured it not to fail on missing web.xml?

Question

Here\'s a challenge: why is this build failing?

I have configured Maven\'s maven-war-plugin not to fail on an abscent web.xml file, it seems:

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Answer 1

This should work:

        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-war-plugin
            
                false
            
            
                
                    prepare-war
                    prepare-package
                    
                        false
                        
                            
                                true
                                
                            
                            
                                ${build.number}
                                ${project.name}
                                ${user.name}
                                ${os.name}
                                ${build.date}
                            
                        
                        
                            
                                
                                ./target/dist
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        

Please notice that the false section has been moved up to the plugin configuration rather than the execution.