Maven war contain two war inside

Question

I would like to have a final war package that contains two packages of war:

Frontend - angularjs, BackendApi - including REST to the next (outside api)

I realize that I can pack it in ear, but I care about the war

<modules>
    <module>Commons</module> <!-- jar package -->
    <module>WarCreator</module> <!-- war package -->
    <module>Web/Frontend</module> <!-- war package -->
    <module>Web/BackendApi</module> <!-- war package -->
</modules>

WarCreator builds the entire package in war, pom:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <parent>
        <artifactId>testtest</artifactId>
        <groupId>testtest</groupId>
        <version>1.0</version>
    </parent>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <artifactId>Dist</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>testtest</groupId>
            <artifactId>Frontend</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <type>war</type>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>testtest</groupId>
            <artifactId>BackendApi</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <type>war</type>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

</project>

Both Backend and FrontendApi packages have jboss-web.xml files, with the following settings:

<jboss-web>
    <context-root>/rest</context-root>
</jboss-web>


<jboss-web>
    <context-root>/view</context-root>
</jboss-web>

but the final war pack has only the first module and only this one is registered (visible in the widlfly logs).

Is there a way to get a war containing two packages of war?

Answer 1

Where did you see that you could package two wars in a war ?
A war is not designed to contain another war.

Maven will not allow to do it naturally as you noticed. And even if you manage to do that by using a trick, the application server will probably not recognize them.
To achieve what you want, use rather a EAR that is the conventional way to package multiple wars or better : don't try to correlate them.
Indeed, make the WARs independent provides much more flexibility for their deployment and maintenance.