A required class was missing while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war

完美解决方案:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18442753/a-required-class-was-missing-while-executing-org-apache-maven-pluginsmaven-war

this happened to me too after adding the version tag, that was missing, to the maven-war-plugin (not sure what version was using by default, i changed to the latest, 2.6 in my case). I had to wipe .m2/repository to have the build succeed again.

I tried first to clean the maven-filtering folder (in the repo) but then instead of a MavenFilterException i was getting an ArchiverException. So i concluded the local repository was corrupted (for a version upgrade?) and i deleted everything.

That fixed it for me. Just clean your local repo.