How do I configure the Maven WAR plugin to execute the "inplace" goal by default? - maven

Question

I’m using Maven 3.2.3 and the Maven War 2.6 plugin. I would like the “inlace” goal of the Maven WAR plugin to execute by default (without my having to explicitly specify “war:inlace” on the command line). So I created a profile to include the below
<profile>
<id>dev</id>
<activation>
<property>
<name>!flag</name>
</property>
</activation>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
<configuration>
<filesets>
<fileset>
<directory>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes</directory>
</fileset>
<fileset>
<directory>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib</directory>
</fileset>
</filesets>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<useCache>true</useCache>
<workDirectory>/tmp/${project.artifactId}/war/work</workDirectory>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>inplace</goal>
</goals>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
Using “mvn help:active-profiles”, I have verified this profile is being used when I run “mvn clean install” on my WAR project. However, the WAR is not assembled in place. For instance, I get the output
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [myproject] in [/Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/myproject/target/myproject]
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Copying webapp resources [/Users/davea/Dropbox/workspace/myproject/src/main/webapp]
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [17460 msecs]
Also I notice there are no “classes” or “lib” resources in my src/main/resources/WEB-INF folder. What do I need to configure differently to get my WAR to be built in-place?

Answer 1

This can probably be classified as a duplicate of How to get Maven to run war:exploded but not war:war with a small twist. Instead of exploded it needs to be inplace:
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- don't pack the war -->
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<!-- optional, depends on your setup -->
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-war</id>
<phase>none</phase>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>war-inplace</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>inplace</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>

Answer 2

The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</plugin>