skip the execution of maven-war-plugin

Question

How do I skip the execution of the maven-war-plugin during a mvn command?

Based on the documentation, it seems like I should be able to do so by running something like the following, using -Dmaven.war.skip=true:

mvn verify -P integration-test -Dmaven.war.skip=true

But when I do that the maven-war-plugin still gets executed.

Also strange is that when I remove the maven-war-plugin from my pom altogether, it still gets executed. That leaves me wondering why maven-war-plugin is getting executed at all, as I don't have it mentioned anywhere in my pom.xml.

So maybe a better question is: what brings the maven-war-plugin into the project if I don't have it listed as a plugin?

Answer 1

You must override the default war execution.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <skip>true</skip>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>war</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Explanation

By default, the war goal binds to the package lifecylcle phase as stated in the documentation.

So we override the package execution in the pom with the skip configuration.