The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven War Plugin, version 2.1-alpha-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. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/ To get the latest version of the plugin, specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1-alpha-2</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven 2.x War Plugin - Version 2.1-alpha-2 ** Bug * [MWAR-60] - Source Excludes are being applied to WAR file * [MWAR-62] - The comma separated list of tokens doesn't work with the property <warSourceExcludes>. * [MWAR-89] - filtering ${something.url} ignores my property value and writes http://maven.apache.org/something * [MWAR-96] - WebResource not filtered with system properties. * [MWAR-101] - Scoped dependencies are not handled correctly * [MWAR-109] - Problem using webResources in configuration * [MWAR-116] - The outputFileNameMapping config creates bad dependency files in WEB-INF/lib * [MWAR-120] - Option containerConfigXML doesn't work * [MWAR-129] - WebRessource not filtered * [MWAR-133] - Filtering issue: wrong replacement of properties by values from MavenProject object * [MWAR-134] - ClasscastException when turning filtering on the web resources * [MWAR-136] - Could not overlay two overlays with same groupId and artifactId (classifier) * [MWAR-137] - Site's Overlays section doesn't reflect the correct configuration for zip overlays * [MWAR-139] - Wrong token replacement (@@ is replaced with [EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [MWAR-140] - 2.1-alpha-2 head is not compiling because AbstractWarPackagingTask is trying to catch an IOException that is no longer thrown * [MWAR-141] - maven-metadata.xml is not being updated with latest snapshots for 2.1-alpha-2 * [MWAR-144] - Custom filter list does not work ** Improvement * [MWAR-30] - I can't build a war-file without a web.xml. * [MWAR-102] - Upgrade maven-archiver dependency to 2.3 * [MWAR-131] - Ability to deploy the content of WEB-INF/classes as a classified artifact * [MWAR-132] - dependencies with same artifactId and != groupId result is conflicts in WEB-INF/lib * [MWAR-135] - Add an option to exclude content from the generated archive to implement the skinny war process * [MWAR-143] - War Overlays and resources filtering * [MWAR-159] - Filtering deployments descriptors (web.xml) ** New Feature * [MWAR-145] - Add a mojo parameter for file extensions which must not be filtered. ** Task * [MWAR-152] - mvn clean does not clean up target directories and build logs from integration tests ** Wish * [MWAR-118] - jar in lib dir are not cleaned if version of the changes im pom.xml Enjoy, -- Wendy Smoak on behalf of the Maven team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]