diff --git a/war/plugin.jelly b/war/plugin.jelly
index 41d561e9..b9d001e2 100644
--- a/war/plugin.jelly
+++ b/war/plugin.jelly
@@ -211,7 +211,9 @@
         description="Remove all artifacts created by war plugin">  
 
       <!-- TODO: delete also snapshot and md5 files -->
-      <ant:delete dir="${maven.war.webapp.dir}"/>
+      <j:if test="${context.getVariable('maven.war.webapp.dir') != context.getVariable('maven.war.src')}">
+        <ant:delete dir="${maven.war.webapp.dir}"/>
+      </j:if>
       <ant:delete file="${maven.war.build.dir}/${maven.war.final.name}" quiet="true" failonerror="false"/>          
     </goal>
     
diff --git a/war/xdocs/changes.xml b/war/xdocs/changes.xml
index 30b5d8ef..2db31a59 100644
--- a/war/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/war/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@
         Use the new <code>caller</code> plugin to isolate the 
         java compilation goal called from its implementation.
       </action>
+      <action dev="bporter" type="add">
+        Add war:inplace goal for building the webapp into maven.war.src. You should cvsignore WEB-INF/lib and
+        WEB-INF/classes
+      </action>
+      <action dev="bporter" type="add">
+        Add target path to dependencies so you can copy to elsewhere than WEB-INF/lib. Useful for applets.
+      </action>
     </release>
 
     <release version="1.4" date="2003-09-29">
diff --git a/war/xdocs/goals.xml b/war/xdocs/goals.xml
index d47094bc..73a8d173 100644
--- a/war/xdocs/goals.xml
+++ b/war/xdocs/goals.xml
@@ -54,7 +54,16 @@
         <name>war:clean</name>
         <description>Delete all artifacts created by war plugin</description>
       </goal>  
+      <goal>
+        <name>war:inplace</name>
+        <description>
+          Build an exploded web application into ${maven.war.src}. This allows you to mount it in your application
+          server, and you only need to run it again for dependency and class changes, not JSP changes.
+          This goal will not clean old dependencies - due to the dangers involved in automating this for your
+          source tree, you must do that yourself.
+        </description>
+      </goal>  
       
     </goals>      
   </body>
-</document>
\ No newline at end of file
+</document>