Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

Chapter 5
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└───WEB-INF
└───target
├───classes
├───maven-archiver
├───surefire
└───testWebApp
├───META-INF
└───WEB-INF
└───classes
You can run the commands to compile and test the project.
$ mvn compile
$ mvn test
$ mvn install
On installation, it will be packaged and deployed in the local repository like any other Maven
project. It can also be deployed into a remote repository.
There's more...
If you have a look, you will find the project source/main/webapp folder consisting of
index.jsp. Make suitable changes to that file such as adding some HTML:
Hello World!
Now that we have the build phase plugin set up, we can proceed to built the project:
$ mvn install
After a successful build, the target folder has been generated. In the target folder, you will
find a WAR file named testWebApp.war. Take a closer look at the project POM file and
you will find that the packaging in there will be set to WAR and the final artifact reflects this
packaging property:
...
testWebApp
war
1.0-SNAPSHOT
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