Generate war file from existing maven project

Question

I have downloaded a project from git. Its a web project using maven. I have eclipse in my machine and also maven is there. Now I want to create a war file from this project for deploying in Tomcat.

Any idea how I can do it. Command line will be a prefer option. I searched in Google but in most of the places it is asking to create a new Maven project or I am missing something.

Thank you

Answer 1

Just add <packaging>war</packaging> to your pom.xml, and run mvn package from the root of your project (ie where the pom.xml resides). If everything will be successful, you'll get a war file in the target directory. See: http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Maven_Coordinates