Intellij Idea ignores maven assembly plugin

Question

I have a multimodule project and one module is a web app and the second one has a custom assembly.

           <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <descriptorRefs>
                        <descriptorRef>src</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                    <formats><format>jar</format></formats>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>cfg-src</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>single</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

Basically I need this archive to contain maven project with sources and maven structure, no binaries etc. When I assemble WAR with maven i.e. mvn package, everything is fine. I use "src" classifier in dependcy. My WAR contains the jar with correct assembly. But when I deploy WAR with Intellij Idea (I created tomcat run config) assembly config of the project is ignored and I an incorrect one. How do I make Idea not to ignore assembly plugin. Please let me know if I'm clear.

Answer 1

IntelliJ does not run mvn package when you deploy your webapp in Tomcat. It runs its custom Make and Build artifact actions.

You can change this behavior by going into Run/Debug configurations dialog and setting Run Maven Goal (package in your case) as a Before launch action instead of Make and Build artifact.

Hope this helps