Maven: The Definitive Guide

Chapter 5. A Simple Web Application

Introduction

In this chapter, we create a simple web application with the Maven Archetype plugin. We’ll run this web application in a Servlet container named Jetty, add some dependencies, write a simple Servlet, and generate a WAR file. At the end of this chapter, you will be able to start using Maven to accelerate the development of web applications.

Downloading This Chapter’s Example

The example in this chapter is generated with the Maven Archetype plugin. While you should be able to follow the development of this chapter without the example source code, we recommend downloading a copy of the example code to use as a reference. This chapter’s example project may be downloaded with the book’s example code at http://www.sonatype.com/book/mvn-examples-1.0.zip or http://www.sonatype.com/book/mvn-examples-1.0.tar.gz. Unzip this archive in any directory, and then go to the ch05/ directory. In the ch05/ directory you will see a directory named simple-webapp/ that contains the Maven project developed in this chapter. If you wish to follow along with the example code in a web browser, go to http://www.sonatype.com/book/examples-1.0 and click on the ch05/ directory.