"webxml attribute is required" error in Maven

Question

I am getting the following error:

Error assembling WAR: webxml attribute is required (or pre-existing WEB-INF/web.xml if executing in update mode)

I have got web.xml in right place which is projectname\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\web.xml

What could be causing this?

Answer 1

It would be helpful if you can provide a code snippet of your maven-war-plugin. Looks like the web.xml is at right place, still you can try and give the location explicitly

<plugin>               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>   <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>   <configuration>     <webXml>src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\web.xml</webXml>           </configuration> </plugin> 

Answer 2

<plugin>     <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>     <version>2.4</version>     <configuration>         <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>     </configuration> </plugin> 

This solution works for me (I was using 2.2 before). Also, I am using Java Based Configuration for Servlet 3.0 and no need to have web.xml file.