AVAJAVA Web Tutorials

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After executing the command, we can see that the "mywebtest" project has been created by the webapp archetype. If we examine the project, we can see that a webapp directory has been created in src/main. The is the web context directory for the project, and we can see that it contains a WEB-INF directory, which holds a default web.xmlW file.

The project's pom.xml file is shown below. Notice that the packaging is set to "war". This means that if a "mvn package" is performed, a warW file will be built for the project.

pom.xml

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.maventest</groupId>
  <artifactId>mywebtest</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>mywebtest Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <finalName>mywebtest</finalName>
  </build>
</project>