使用 maven 在 WAR 存档的根目录中打包 JAR 文件

Question

I'm trying to customise WAR archive generation with maven in a way that a certain client jar is at the root of a war file instead of default WEB-INF/lib directory

I used the copy goal of maven-dependency-plugin to copy this jar to location ${project.build.directory}${file.separator}${project.artifactId}-${project.version} this copies it as expected ie target/mywar-1.0-SNAPSHOT folder

\-target
   |-mywar-1.0-SNAPSHOT
       |-WEB-INF
           |-lib
           |-classes
       |-something.jsp
       |-other-jar-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

however, when the maven build generates a WAR archive this JAR is not included in the packaging in the root of WAR archive. How do I get the following WAR archive structure in place with maven?

\-mywar-1.0-SNAPSHOT.WAR
   |-WEB-INF
       |-lib
       |-classes
   |-something.jsp
   |-other-jar-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

notice that this other jar should be at the same level as WEB-INF not inside it.

Answer 1

I would think the war plugin takes its input from the src directory, not the target directory. See thewar-mojo docs .

What might help is this howto on how to add additional resources into the war file.