Configuring war plugin for using a jar instead of WEB-INF/classes

[Sebastien Brunot]

Hi all,
 
i've got a war project which pom build section contains the following
statements:
 
   <!-- Package webapp classes into a jar instead of under
WEB-INF/classes --> 
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
     <execution>
      <goals>
       <goal>war</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
       <archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses>
      </configuration>
     </execution>
    </executions>
   </plugin>

As a result, all the classes and resources from my war project are
packaged in a jar that is copied in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the war
artifact.
 
But i don't understand why the war artifact still contains copy of the
classes and resources under WEB-INF/classes... Does anybody think that
i've misconfigured the war plugin ?
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Sebastien