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 Pete Marvin King
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Maven WAR Plugin

 The war plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes
 and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive.
 
* Goals Overview

 * {{{war-mojo.html}war:war}} is the default goal invoked during the package phase for projects with a package type of <<<war>>>.
 
 * {{{exploded-mojo.html}war:exploded}} is generally used to speed up testing during the developement phase by creating
 an exploded war in a specified directory.
 
 * {{{inplace-mojo.html}war:inplace}} another variation of the war:explode where the war is instead generated in the web source directory
 which is <<<src/main/webapp>>> by default.
 
* Usage

  Instructions on how to use the Maven WAR Plugin can be found {{{usage.html}here}}. Specific documentation
  regarding overlays can be found {{{overlays.html}here}}.

* Examples
 
 To provide you with better understanding on some usages of the Maven WAR Plugin,
 you can take a look into the following examples:
 
 * {{{examples/adding-filtering-webresources.html}Adding and Filtering External Web Resources}}
 
 * {{{examples/war-manifest-guide.html}War Manifest Customization}}

 * {{{examples/rapid-testing-jetty6-plugin.html}Rapid Testing Using Jetty6}}

 * {{{examples/skinny-wars.html}Creating Skinny WARs}}
 
 * {{{examples/file-name-mapping.html}Using File Name Mapping}}

* Related links
 
  * {{{http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-archive-configuration.html}Exclusion of Maven Descriptors}}