Disable Maven warning message - "Selected war files include a WEB-INF/web.xml which will be ignored"

Question

When building WAR package using Maven 2.1.1, I get this warning message:

[WARNING] Warning: selected war files include a WEB-INF/web.xml which will be ig nored (webxml attribute is missing from war task, or ignoreWebxml attribute is specifi ed as 'true') 

Is there a way to eliminate it? It doesn't fail the building process, but I just do not want to see it.

Answer 1

It seems to be fixed in current version of maven-war-plugin, so just specifying:

    <plugin>         <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>         <version>2.3</version>     </plugin> 

fixed it for me. (See the last answer (20/Sep/12 4:37 AM) from Anders Hammar on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-248.)

Answer 2

I got rid of this warning in maven 3.0.1 with the following build configuration (i believe perhaps web.xml is added to the project by other means, and should't be packaged by default):

<project>     ...     <build>         <plugins>             <plugin>                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>                 <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>                 <version>2.6</version>                 <configuration>                     <packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/web.xml</packagingExcludes>                 </configuration>             </plugin>         </plugins>     </build>     ... </project>