Building a WAR project

So far, we have been building projects that generate a JAR artifact. When it comes to web applications, we typically create WAR artifacts. Maven supports the building of WAR artifacts. The packaging type .war indicates to Maven that it is a WAR artifact. Maven automatically invokes the corresponding lifecycle bindings.

How to do it...

1. Run the following command from the command prompt:

   mvn archetype:generate –DinteractiveMode=false  -DgroupId=com.packt.cookbook -DartifactId=simple-webapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp 
   

2. Observe the output:

   

3. Open the created pom file:

   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.packt.cookbook</groupId>
     <artifactId>simple-webapp</artifactId>
     <packaging>war</packaging>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <name>simple-webapp Maven Webapp</name>
     <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
     <build>
       <finalName>simple-webapp</finalName...