Creating a jar and a war from a war project

[shailendra singh]

Hi,

For some reason I am struggling to 
create a war and a jar from a maven war project. I want to create these two 
artifacts from my maven war project with following requirements -

Jar
 - This should contain all the class files and dependencies of war 
project. However dependencies should be copied under lib folder of this 
jar and should not be in unpacked form. This part is giving me problem.

War
 - For war I simply want to have static artifacts and nothing which is 
present under WEB-INF folder. I am able to achieve this using maven war 
plugin.

Here is the code present under <build> tag of my pom.xml -
<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <descriptors>
                        <descriptor>assembly.xml</descriptor>
                    </descriptors>
                    <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                            <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
                        </manifest>
                    </archive>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>jar-with-dependencies-in-lib</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>single</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/</packagingExcludes>
                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

        </plugins>
    </build>

Here is content of assembly.xml file which is located directly under project 
root directory - 

<assembly
    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2";
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2
 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd";>
    <id>jar-with-dependencies-in-lib</id>
    <formats>
        <format>jar</format>
    </formats>
    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
    <fileSets>
        <fileSet>
            
<directory>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/lib</directory>
            <includes>
                
<include>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/classes</include>
              </includes>
        </fileSet>
    </fileSets>
</assembly>

I
 feel that I don't need maven-war-plugin at all and both the artifacts 
can be created using maven assembly plugin only. However I am unable to 
figure out how to achieve this.

- Shailendra