My take on this is it's the same rationale as a jar. If the tests don't 
pass, don't build the deliverable.
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"Matt Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/12/2002 06:41:19 AM:

> Can I suggest that we remove the 
> 
>    <attainGoal name="test:test"/>
> 
> task for the war:war target?  It seems inappropriate to force all the
> unit tests to be run just to build the war file.  It seems to me that
> users are always able to call 
> 
>    maven test:test
> 
> explicitly.  Having war:war call test:test means that:
> 
>    * if you have a lot of unit tests, this can be an extremely long
> 
>      operation.  This can be especially painful if all you want to
> do
>      is rebuild the war file after making a minor modification
> 
>    * if the machine you intend to perform builds on is not
> configured
>      to run the tests, you can't build the war file
> 
> Any comments would be appreciated :)
> 
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