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Subodh Joshi
Subodh Joshi

Reputation: 13492

Maven doesn't copy empty directories to webapps folder while creating war file

I have he following structure of a maven web application

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When I execute mvn install command it's creating war file but if you will look in target directory/sureportal you can easily see that lots of sub folders inside webapps directory are missing. What is wrong?

pom.xml file

<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.nokia</groupId>
  <artifactId>sureportal</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
  <name>sureportal 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>sureportal</finalName>
  </build>
</project>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1770

Answers (3)

dileep H
dileep H

Reputation: 355

You can have a maven-war-plugin and configure to include empty folders.

<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.4</version>
  <configuration>
    <includeEmptyDirectories>true</includeEmptyDirectories> 
  </configuration>
</plugin>

Upvotes: 3

JimHawkins
JimHawkins

Reputation: 5000

In addition to the answer of sbaitmangalkar, insert the maven-war-plugin to the build section of your POM:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.6</version>
            <configuration>
                <!-  if you don't have a web.xml, otherwise "true" -->
                <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                <includeEmptyDirectories>true</includeEmptyDirectories>
                <includes>**/*</includes>

                <!-- if want your web files to be filterd -->
                <webResources>
                    <resource>
                        <directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
                        <includes>
                            <include>**/*</include>
                        </includes>
                        <filtering>true</filtering>
                    </resource>
                    <resource>
                        <directory>src/main/resources/META-INF</directory>

                        <!-- only if needed in your project -->
                        <targetPath>/META-INF</targetPath>
                        <includes>
                            <include>context.xml</include>
                        </includes>
                        <filtering>true</filtering>
                    </resource>
                </webResources>

            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

This tells the build process explicitly what to do.

Upvotes: 2

Shyam Baitmangalkar
Shyam Baitmangalkar

Reputation: 1073

Try running mvn clean install. This will clear your compiled files first and ensures that all of it is compiled from scratch. Please check this thread for more details how-is-mvn-clean-install-different-from-mvn-install

Good luck.

Upvotes: 0

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