Let me just start off by saying, I am new to Maven / Spring and am having a hard time figuring out what to do when my directory does not follow the preferred Maven structure. >
The reference doc contains a detailed description of this. You need
in both your frontend and backed module pom and some Java code. All described here
With that said, I try to avoid war deploys if not totally necessary. You could just run the built jar file with java -jar your.jar
and it will start in an embedded Tomcat.