Classifier in jar file name is removed once assembled into war file
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                 Key: MPWAR-67
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPWAR-67
             Project: maven-war-plugin
          Issue Type: Bug
         Environment: Maven 2.0.4, JDK 1.5, maven-war-plugin version 2.0
            Reporter: Andreas Guther


We use the Maven classifier to distinguish between different jar files of the 
same version build for different purposes.  An example would be the classifier 
used for TestNG to distinguish between jdk15 and jdk14 jar files.

I noticed that the jar file (for example test-1.0-classifier.jar) ends up in 
the WEB-INF/lib folder with the classifier removed (i.e. following the example 
test.1.0.jar).

This is unexpected and confusing.  Since there is very little documentation 
about the expected behavior while using classifiers, it is not clear if this is 
intenionally or a bug.  

If intenionally, it should be mentioned in the maven-war-plugin documentation.  
Maybe in that case it would be an enhancement to configure if the classifier 
should be preserved or removed.

However, the current behavior is undocumented and unexpected.


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