We are pleased to announce the Maven WAR Plugin 1.2 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/war/

War Plugin for Maven 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Moved the detection of the webSources inside the 'war:war' goal itself so 
  that webSource can be assembled on the fly. With the detection outside the 
  'war:war' goal webSources would not be gathered into the resulting WAR 
  file. 
o Added support for WARs that contain only java classes and no web resources.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/,http://repo1.maven.org/maven
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-war-plugin
  -Dversion=1.2

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-war-plugin-1.2.jar


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Issues, bugs, and feature requests for Maven WAR Plugin
should be submitted to the following issue tracking system:

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPWAR


Have fun!
-The Maven WAR Plugin development team