web.xml is missing and is set to true

Question

Consider:

When I create a simple Maven project in Eclipse I am getting this error:

web.xml is missing and

Answer 1

You can also do this which is less verbose

<properties>
    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</properties>

Answer 2

If you already have web.xml under /src/main/webapp/WEB-INF but you still get error "web.xml is missing and is set to true", you could check if you have included /src/main/webapp in your project source.

Here are the steps you can follow:

1. You can check this by right clicking your project, and open its Properties dialogue, and then "Deployment Assembly", where you can add Folder /src/main/webapp. Save the setting, and then,
2. Go to Eclipse menu Project -> Clean... and clean the project, and the error should go away.

(I verified this with Eclipse Mars)