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I try to build .war file by using maven plugin:

 <plugin> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> <configuration> <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory> <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml> </configuration> </plugin>

My project structure looks like:

/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ /main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/... /main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml /main/webapp/public/... /main/webapp/resources/... /main/webapp/views/...

After building, my war file contains only WEB-INF and META-INF. All other content of webapp directory is missing (public, resources and views). Furthermore the WEB-INF dir in .war file consists only /classes and /lib directories (/WEB-INF/spring and WEB-INF/web.xml are missig).

How to tell maven to pack all webapp and WEB-INF directory content into war file?

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There is a mismatch between your configuration of the maven-war-plugin and the structure of your project. With <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>, you are configuration the maven-war-plugin to look for your webapp sources inside the WebContent directory. However, your sources are in main/webapp.

I suggest you move all of your webapp sources inside src/main/webapp (instead of main/webapp) and update the maven-war-plugin configuration to:

<plugin> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> <configuration> <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml> </configuration> </plugin>

By default, the maven-war-plugin will be looking for your webapp sources inside src/main/webapp.

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You can package your project using Maven by using following command in your command-line.

mvn clean package
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Take a look at the Maven layout definition: The webapp folder should be in src/main/webapp instead of main/webapp. Alternatively you can also force maven to look in a different directory for your resources. See https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Build_Settings

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Please note the slight typo in this answer: the webapp folder should be src/main/webapp

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