Maven: How to rename the war file for the project?

Question

I have a project bird with the following components in pom.xml

   <groupId>com.myorg</groupId>     <artifactId>bird</artifactId>     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>     <packaging>pom</packaging>     <name>bird</name>      <modules>         <module>persistence</module>         <module>business</module>         <module>service</module>         <module>web</module>     </modules> 

and the web module pom.xml

   <parent>         <artifactId>bird</artifactId>         <groupId>com.myorg</groupId>         <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>     </parent>      <artifactId>web</artifactId>     <packaging>war</packaging>   

The web module creates a war file named web-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war
How can I configure maven to build it as bird.war?

Answer 1

You can use the following in the web module that produces the war:

<build>   <finalName>bird</finalName>  . . . </build> 

This leads to a file called bird.war to be created when goal "war:war" is used.

Answer 2

You need to configure the war plugin:

<project>   ...   <build>     <plugins>       <plugin>         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>         <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>         <version>2.3</version>         <configuration>           <warName>bird.war</warName>         </configuration>       </plugin>     </plugins>   </build>   ... </project> 

More info here