We publish .war files to our repository so they can be deployed to the web nodes as part of their update scripts by doing a simple svn export of the war file on those machines without needing to do a checkout and build of the entire project.You're right that there's a less compelling argument for publishing top-level artifacts like WARs to an Ivy repository. I'd be curious what rationales others out there have found for publishing EARs or WARs to their Ivy repository.
