setting archiveClasses to true create the jar in WEB-INF/lib but does not remove WEB-INF/classes

What commands have you been using to generate your war ?

I have an idea that the scenario was:

" <plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archiveClasses>false</archiveClasses><!-or missing->
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>"

then:
mvn package

after that user changed in pom.xml to: <archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses>

then:
mvn package

In effect the final zzz.war constains both: classes and zzz.jar.

It is reason of the target/zzz directory, which constains zzz classes ofter first "mvn package",
and zzz.jar after the second "mvn package".

Instead the second "mvn package" the user should use "mvn clean package", to run the
war plugin on an empty target/zzz dir.

If the scenario is true - I think that this issue is not a bug.

Piotr is right, it's not a bug. Behavior runs as expected if you're starting from a clean build.

Hi,

I came across this issue, and I'm having the same problem.

My pom.xml settings:
<build>
<outputDirectory>WebContent/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
<executions>
<goal>explode</goal>
</executions>
<configuration>
<archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses>
<dependentWarIncludes>
*/resources/.*
</dependentWarIncludes>
<webResources>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory -->
<directory>$

/WebContent</directory>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

It creates a jar file inside the WEB-INF\lib folder, but doesn't remove classes from WEB-INF\classes folder.

I've tried a clean build:
mvn clean
and then to be sure:
mvn clean package

Any workaround?

Still getting this....
mvn 2.0.9
war 2.0

Any one out there on the same boat?

Comment edited: 2.0 does not have the <archiveClasses> feature, and I can't reproduce the problem of getting both WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib in any version.

With 2.0 - files in WEB-INF/classes, nothing in WEB-INF/lib

     0 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 META-INF/
   221 Thu Oct 16 08:11:54 MST 2008 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 WEB-INF/
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 WEB-INF/classes/
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 WEB-INF/classes/net/
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 WEB-INF/classes/net/wsmoak/
    52 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 index.jsp
   535 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 WEB-INF/classes/net/wsmoak/App.class
   215 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 WEB-INF/web.xml
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/com.example/
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/com.example/mywebapp/
   946 Thu Oct 16 08:11:50 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/com.example/mywebapp/pom.xml
   111 Thu Oct 16 08:11:56 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/com.example/mywebapp/pom.properties

With 2.0.1, 2.1-alpha-2 - jar in WEB-INF/lib, nothing in WEB-INF/classes

     0 Thu Oct 16 08:12:48 MST 2008 META-INF/
   125 Thu Oct 16 08:12:46 MST 2008 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:12:46 MST 2008 WEB-INF/
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:12:46 MST 2008 WEB-INF/lib/
    52 Thu Oct 16 08:02:02 MST 2008 index.jsp
  2208 Thu Oct 16 08:12:46 MST 2008 WEB-INF/lib/mywebapp.jar
   215 Thu Oct 16 08:02:02 MST 2008 WEB-INF/web.xml
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:12:48 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:12:48 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/com.example/
     0 Thu Oct 16 08:12:48 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/com.example/mywebapp/
   948 Thu Oct 16 08:12:40 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/com.example/mywebapp/pom.xml
   111 Thu Oct 16 08:12:46 MST 2008 META-INF/maven/com.example/mywebapp/pom.properties

Hello,

This bug still seems to exist in this version of the war task:

[DEBUG] Retrieving parent-POM: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-plugins:pom:13 for project: null:maven-war-plugin:maven-plugin:2.1-beta-1 from the repository.

I have defined:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<executions><execution>
<goals>
<goal>war</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses>
</configuration>
</execution></executions>
</plugin>

In my pom and run mvn clean package. I see the classes and the jar file in WEB-INF/lib.

Would be great so solve this issue so if someone wants to get in touch then I'm happy to help where I can.

Hello,

Also, I would expect this to work when the exploded goal is included, but in this instance, the task does not even create the jar file.

I've looked at the source:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/plugins/tags/maven-war-plugin-2.1-beta-1/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/war/packaging/ClassesPackagingTask.java?revision=754916&view=markup

(I know nothing about task development for maven) and I can't see any obvious code that would remove/mask the classes.

John