Builds a Web Application Archive (WAR) file from the project output and its dependencies.

Plugin coordinates:

• Group Id: org.apache.maven.plugins
  
• Artifact Id: maven-war-plugin
  

Plugin Prefix: war

The war plugin has the following goals:

• help: Displays help information on maven-war-plugin.
  
  
• war: Builds a WAR file.
  
  
• exploded: Creates an exploded webapp in a specified directory.
  
  
• inplace: Generates the webapp in the WAR source directory.
  

The goal help gives general information about the war plugin and lists its goals.
The parameter detail gives detailed information about the parameters of the goals of the war plugin.
$ mvn war:help $ mvn war:help -Ddetail=true
If you need to use the plugin's coordinates instead of its prefix, you can do that as following:
$ mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:3.3.2:help $ mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:3.3.2:help -Ddetail=true
You can also use the goal describe of the help plugin to get information about the war plugin and lists its goals:
$ mvn help:describe -Dplugin=war $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:3.3.2" $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:3.3.2" -Ddetail=true
The parameter goal gives information about a goal of the war plugin:
$ mvn war:help -Dgoal=war -Ddetail=true $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin=war -Dgoal=war -Ddetail=true