It appears this was fixed in version 2.2 of m-w-p, try updating. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-235
Cheers, John 2010/10/28 Marcin Trościańczyk <mtros...@gmail.com> > Hi, > > I have a problem with maven-war-plugin version 2.1. Below, I paste build > section fragment from my pom.xml: > > <build> > <plugins> > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> > <configuration> > <!-- http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/ --> > <source>1.6</source> > <target>1.6</target> > </configuration> > </plugin> > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> > <version>2.1</version> > </plugin> > </plugins> > </build> > > Unfotunetly, generated artifact (war) contains two web.xml. When I use > maven-war-plugin version 2.0.1 all works fine (generated war archive > contains one web.xml). How can I solve this problem. > > Cheers, > Marcin >