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:
    How to do it...
  3. Open the created pom file:
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.packt.cookbook</groupId> ...

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