war:war
Full name:
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.5:war
Description:
Attributes:
- Requires a Maven project to be executed.
- Requires dependency resolution of artifacts in scope: runtime.
- The goal is thread-safe and supports parallel builds.
- Binds by default to the lifecycle phase: package.
Required Parameters
Name | Type | Since | Description |
---|---|---|---|
cacheFile | File | 2.1-alpha-1 | The file containing the webapp structure cache. Default value is: ${project.build.directory}/war/work/webapp-cache.xml. |
outputDirectory | String | - | The directory for the generated WAR. Default value is: ${project.build.directory}. |
warName | String | - | The name of the generated WAR. Default value is: ${project.build.finalName}. User property is: war.warName. |
warSourceDirectory | File | - | Single directory for extra files to include in the WAR. This is where you place your JSP files. Default value is: ${basedir}/src/main/webapp. |
webappDirectory | File | - | The directory where the webapp is built. Default value is: ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}. |
workDirectory | File | - | Directory to unpack dependent WARs into if needed. Default value is: ${project.build.directory}/war/work. |
Optional Parameters
Name | Type | Since | Description |
---|---|---|---|
archive | MavenArchiveConfiguration | - | The archive configuration to use. See Maven Archiver Reference. |
archiveClasses | boolean | 2.0.1 | Whether a JAR file will be created for the classes in the webapp. Using this optional configuration parameter will make the compiled classes to be archived into a JAR file and the classes directory will then be excluded from the webapp. Default value is: false. User property is: archiveClasses. |
attachClasses | boolean | 2.1-alpha-2 | Whether classes (that is the content of the WEB-INF/classes directory) should be attached to the project as an additional artifact. By default the classifier for the additional artifact is 'classes'. You can change it with the<classesClassifier>someclassifier</classesClassifier> parameter. If this parameter true, another project can depend on the classes by writing something like: <dependency> <groupId>myGroup</groupId> <artifactId>myArtifact</artifactId> <version>myVersion</myVersion> <classifier>classes</classifier> </dependency> Default value is: false. |
classesClassifier | String | 2.1-alpha-2 | The classifier to use for the attached classes artifact. Default value is: classes. |
classifier | String | - | Classifier to add to the generated WAR. If given, the artifact will be an attachment instead. The classifier will not be applied to the JAR file of the project - only to the WAR file. |
containerConfigXML | File | - | The path to a configuration file for the servlet container. Note that the file name may be different for different servlet containers. Apache Tomcat uses a configuration file named context.xml. The file will be copied to the META-INF directory. User property is: maven.war.containerConfigXML. |
dependentWarExcludes | String | - | Deprecated. Use <overlay>/<excludes> instead |
dependentWarIncludes | String | - | Deprecated. Use <overlay>/<includes> instead |
escapeString | String | 2.1-beta-1 | Expression preceded with this String won't be interpolated. \${foo} will be replaced with ${foo}. User property is: maven.war.escapeString. |
escapedBackslashesInFilePath | boolean | 2.1-alpha-2 | To escape interpolated values with Windows path c:\foo\bar will be replaced with c:\\foo\\bar. Default value is: false. User property is: maven.war.escapedBackslashesInFilePath. |
failOnMissingWebXml | boolean | 2.1-alpha-2 | Whether or not to fail the build if the web.xml file is missing. Set to false if you want you WAR built without a web.xml file. This may be useful if you are building an overlay that has no web.xml file. Default value is: true. User property is: failOnMissingWebXml. |
filteringDeploymentDescriptors | boolean | 2.1-alpha-2 | To filter deployment descriptors. Disabled by default. Default value is: false. User property is: maven.war.filteringDeploymentDescriptors. |
filters | List | - | Filters (property files) to include during the interpolation of the pom.xml. |
includeEmptyDirectories | boolean | 2.4 | (no description) Default value is: false. |
nonFilteredFileExtensions | List | 2.1-alpha-2 | A list of file extensions that should not be filtered. Will be used when filtering webResources and overlays. |
outputFileNameMapping | String | 2.1-alpha-1 | The file name mapping to use when copying libraries and TLDs. If no file mapping is set (default) the files are copied with their standard names. |
overlays | List | 2.1-alpha-1 | The overlays to apply. Each <overlay> element may contain:
|
packagingExcludes | String | 2.1-alpha-2 | The comma separated list of tokens to exclude from the WAR before packaging. This option may be used to implement the skinny WAR use case. Note that you can use the Java Regular Expressions engine to include and exclude specific pattern using the expression %regex[]. Hint: read the about (?!Pattern). |
packagingIncludes | String | 2.1-beta-1 | The comma separated list of tokens to include in the WAR before packaging. By default everything is included. This option may be used to implement the skinny WAR use case. Note that you can use the Java Regular Expressions engine to include and exclude specific pattern using the expression %regex[]. |
primaryArtifact | boolean | - | Whether this is the main artifact being built. Set to false if you don't want to install or deploy it to the local repository instead of the default one in an execution. Default value is: true. User property is: primaryArtifact. |
recompressZippedFiles | boolean | 2.3 | Indicates if zip archives (jar,zip etc) being added to the war should be compressed again. Compressing again can result in smaller archive size, but gives noticeably longer execution time. Default value is: true. |
resourceEncoding | String | 2.3 | The encoding to use when copying filtered web resources. Default value is: ${project.build.sourceEncoding}. User property is: resourceEncoding. |
supportMultiLineFiltering | boolean | 2.4 | Stop searching endToken at the end of line Default value is: false. User property is: maven.war.supportMultiLineFiltering. |
useCache | boolean | 2.1-alpha-1 | Whether the cache should be used to save the status of the webapp across multiple runs. Experimental feature so disabled by default. Default value is: false. User property is: useCache. |
useJvmChmod | boolean | 2.4 | use jvmChmod rather that cli chmod and forking process Default value is: true. User property is: maven.war.useJvmChmod. |
warSourceExcludes | String | - | The comma separated list of tokens to exclude when copying the content of the warSourceDirectory. |
warSourceIncludes | String | - | The comma separated list of tokens to include when copying the content of the warSourceDirectory. Default value is: **. |
webResources | Resource[] | - | The list of webResources we want to transfer. |
webXml | File | - | The path to the web.xml file to use. User property is: maven.war.webxml. |
Parameter Details
- Type: org.apache.maven.archiver.MavenArchiveConfiguration
- Required: No
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.0.1
- Required: No
- User Property: archiveClasses
- Default: false
By default the classifier for the additional artifact is 'classes'. You can change it with the <classesClassifier>someclassifier</classesClassifier> parameter.
If this parameter true, another project can depend on the classes by writing something like:
<dependency> <groupId>myGroup</groupId> <artifactId>myArtifact</artifactId> <version>myVersion</myVersion> <classifier>classes</classifier> </dependency>
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.1-alpha-2
- Required: No
- Default: false
- Type: java.io.File
- Since: 2.1-alpha-1
- Required: Yes
- Default: ${project.build.directory}/war/work/webapp-cache.xml
- Type: java.lang.String
- Since: 2.1-alpha-2
- Required: No
- Default: classes
- Type: java.lang.String
- Required: No
- Type: java.io.File
- Required: No
- User Property: maven.war.containerConfigXML
- Type: java.lang.String
- Required: No
- Type: java.lang.String
- Required: No
- Type: java.lang.String
- Since: 2.1-beta-1
- Required: No
- User Property: maven.war.escapeString
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.1-alpha-2
- Required: No
- User Property: maven.war.escapedBackslashesInFilePath
- Default: false
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.1-alpha-2
- Required: No
- User Property: failOnMissingWebXml
- Default: true
filteringDeploymentDescriptors:
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.1-alpha-2
- Required: No
- User Property: maven.war.filteringDeploymentDescriptors
- Default: false
- Type: java.util.List
- Required: No
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.4
- Required: No
- Default: false
- Type: java.util.List
- Since: 2.1-alpha-2
- Required: No
- Type: java.lang.String
- Required: Yes
- Default: ${project.build.directory}
- Type: java.lang.String
- Since: 2.1-alpha-1
- Required: No
- id (defaults to currentBuild)
- groupId (if this and artifactId are null, then the current project is treated as its own overlay)
- artifactId (see above)
- classifier
- type
- includes (a list of string patterns)
- excludes (a list of string patterns)
- filtered (defaults to false)
- skip (defaults to false)
- targetPath (defaults to root of webapp structure)
- Type: java.util.List
- Since: 2.1-alpha-1
- Required: No
- Type: java.lang.String
- Since: 2.1-alpha-2
- Required: No
- Type: java.lang.String
- Since: 2.1-beta-1
- Required: No
- Type: boolean
- Required: No
- User Property: primaryArtifact
- Default: true
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.3
- Required: No
- Default: true
- Type: java.lang.String
- Since: 2.3
- Required: No
- User Property: resourceEncoding
- Default: ${project.build.sourceEncoding}
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.4
- Required: No
- User Property: maven.war.supportMultiLineFiltering
- Default: false
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.1-alpha-1
- Required: No
- User Property: useCache
- Default: false
- Type: boolean
- Since: 2.4
- Required: No
- User Property: maven.war.useJvmChmod
- Default: true
- Type: java.lang.String
- Required: Yes
- User Property: war.warName
- Default: ${project.build.finalName}
- Type: java.io.File
- Required: Yes
- Default: ${basedir}/src/main/webapp
- Type: java.lang.String
- Required: No
- Type: java.lang.String
- Required: No
- Default: **
- Type: org.apache.maven.model.Resource[]
- Required: No
- Type: java.io.File
- Required: No
- User Property: maven.war.webxml
- Type: java.io.File
- Required: Yes
- Default: ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}
- Type: java.io.File
- Required: Yes
- Default: ${project.build.directory}/war/work
Adding and Filtering External Web Resources
The default resource directory for all Maven projects is src/main/resources which will end up in target/classes and in WEB-INF/classes in the WAR. The directory structure will be preserved in the process.
The WAR Plugin is also capable of including resources not found in the default resource directory through the webResources parameter.
Adding web resources
<project> ... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> <configuration> <webResources> <resource> <!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory --> <directory>resource2</directory> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> ... </project>
Using our sample project in the usage section with an added external resource, like this:
. |-- pom.xml |-- resource2 | |-- external-resource.jpg | `-- image2 | `-- external-resource2.jpg `-- src `-- main |-- java | `-- com | `-- example | `-- projects | `-- SampleAction.java |-- resources | `-- images | `-- sampleimage.jpg `-- webapp |-- WEB-INF | `-- web.xml |-- index.jsp `-- jsp `-- websource.jsp
would end up in the WAR as:
documentedproject-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war |-- META-INF | |-- MANIFEST.MF | `-- maven | `-- com.example.projects | `-- documentedproject | |-- pom.properties | `-- pom.xml |-- WEB-INF | |-- classes | | |-- com | | | `-- example | | | `-- projects | | | `-- SampleAction.class | | `-- images | | `-- sampleimage.jpg | `-- web.xml |-- external-resource.jpg |-- image2 | `-- external-resource2.jpg |-- index.jsp `-- jsp `-- websource.jsp
external-resource2.jpg and image2 are copied to the root of the WAR, preserving the directory structure.
Configuring web Resources
webResources is a list of resources. All options of resource are supported.
A web resource
- can have includes/excludes
- can be filtered
- is not limited to the default destination - the root of the WAR
Includes/Excludes
To include all jpgs in the WAR we can add the following to our POM configuration from above:
... <configuration> <webResources> <resource> <!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory --> <directory>resource2</directory> <!-- the list has a default value of ** --> <includes> <include>**/*.jpg</include> </includes> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> ...
To exclude the image2 directory from the WAR add this:
... <configuration> <webResources> <resource> <!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory --> <directory>resource2</directory> <!-- there's no default value for this --> <excludes> <exclude>**/image2</exclude> </excludes> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> ...
Be careful when mixing includes and excludes, excludes will have a higher priority. Includes can not override excludes if a resource matches both.
Having this configuration will exclude all jpgs from the WAR:
... <configuration> <webResources> <resource> <!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory --> <directory>resource2/</directory> <!-- the list has a default value of ** --> <includes> <include>image2/*.jpg</include> </includes> <!-- there's no default value for this --> <excludes> <exclude>**/*.jpg</exclude> </excludes> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> ...
Here's another example of how to specify include and exclude patterns:
... <configuration> <webResources> <resource> <!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory --> <directory>resource2</directory> <!-- the default value is ** --> <includes> <include>**/pattern1</include> <include>*pattern2</include> </includes> <!-- there's no default value for this --> <excludes> <exclude>*pattern3/pattern3</exclude> <exclude>pattern4/pattern4</exclude> </excludes> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> ...
Filtering
Using our example above, we can also configure filters for our resources. We will add a hypothetical configurations directory to our project:
. |-- configurations | |-- config.cfg | `-- properties | `-- config.prop |-- pom.xml |-- resource2 | |-- external-resource.jpg | `-- image2 | `-- external-resource2.jpg `-- src `-- main |-- java | `-- com | `-- example | `-- projects | `-- SampleAction.java |-- resources | `-- images | `-- sampleimage.jpg `-- webapp |-- WEB-INF | `-- web.xml |-- index.jsp `-- jsp `-- websource.jsp
To prevent corrupting your binary files when filtering is enabled, you can configure a list of file extensions that will not be filtered.
... <configuration> <!-- the default value is the filter list under build --> <!-- specifying a filter will override the filter list under build --> <filters> <filter>properties/config.prop</filter> </filters> <nonFilteredFileExtensions> <!-- default value contains jpg,jpeg,gif,bmp,png --> <nonFilteredFileExtension>pdf</nonFilteredFileExtension> </nonFilteredFileExtensions> <webResources> <resource> <directory>resource2</directory> <!-- it's not a good idea to filter binary files --> <filtering>false</filtering> </resource> <resource> <directory>configurations</directory> <!-- enable filtering --> <filtering>true</filtering> <excludes> <exclude>**/properties</exclude> </excludes> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> ...
config.cfg
<another_ioc_container> <configuration>${interpolated_property}</configuration> </another_ioc_container>
The resulting WAR would be:
documentedproject-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war |-- META-INF | |-- MANIFEST.MF | `-- maven | `-- com.example.projects | `-- documentedproject | |-- pom.properties | `-- pom.xml |-- WEB-INF | |-- classes | | |-- com | | | `-- example | | | `-- projects | | | `-- SampleAction.class | | `-- images | | `-- sampleimage.jpg | `-- web.xml |-- config.cfg |-- external-resource.jpg |-- image2 | `-- external-resource2.jpg |-- index.jsp `-- jsp `-- websource.jsp
and the content of config.cfg would be:
<another_ioc_container> <configuration>some_config_value</configuration> </another_ioc_container>
Note: In versions 2.2 and earlier of this plugin the platform encoding was used when filtering resources. Depending on what that encoding was you could end up with scrambled characters after filtering. Starting with version 2.3 this plugin respects the property project.build.sourceEncoding when filtering resources. One notable exception to this is that .xml files are filtered using the encoding specified inside the xml-file itself.
Overriding the default destination directory
By default web resources are copied to the root of the WAR, as shown in the previous example. To override the default destination directory, specify the target path.
... <configuration> <webResources> <resource> ... </resource> <resource> <directory>configurations</directory> <!-- override the destination directory for this resource --> <targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath> <!-- enable filtering --> <filtering>true</filtering> <excludes> <exclude>**/properties</exclude> </excludes> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> ...
Using the sample project the resulting WAR would look like this:
documentedproject-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war |-- META-INF | |-- MANIFEST.MF | `-- maven | `-- com.example.projects | `-- documentedproject | |-- pom.properties | `-- pom.xml |-- WEB-INF | |-- classes | | |-- com | | | `-- example | | | `-- projects | | | `-- SampleAction.class | | `-- images | | `-- sampleimage.jpg | |-- config.cfg | `-- web.xml |-- external-resource.jpg |-- image2 | `-- external-resource2.jpg |-- index.jsp `-- jsp `-- websource.jsp