Vincent Massol Manifest file is now generated properly. Aded the ability to customize the Class-Path entry of the manifest Added property maven.war.resources.overwriteto control is resources overwrites the ones in the generated webapp directory. Added ability to expand properties when copying war resources. Updated wrong documentation regarding web.xml filtering. Now filtering when copying resources. Added property maven.war.webxml.overwriteto control if the source web.xml overwrite the one in the generated webapp directory. Fixed confusing documentation regarding maven.war.classes.includes and excludes properties License file is now added properly to the generated war Remove reference to unused caller tag library to suppress warning Add support for EJB client code. Removed attribute update=truefrom ant:jarcall, so now a fresh WAR is created on each run. Made the maven.war.final.nameproperty public as it is required by several other plugins and before this change the only way is for these plugins was to call the non-public war:initgoal. Splitted war:webapp in war:war-resources and war:webapp. Deprecated war:load hook goal Allow use of maven.war.manifest to specify the manifest file location. Make docs more readable. preserve last modified time of source files in the exploded webapp Call test:test regardless of whether sources are present as it contains build logic Remove extra call to java:compile Allow automated generation of manifest Class-Path Allow customizing of MANIFEST.MF Fix for MAVEN-986. Allow resources to be copied when no sources present Use the new callerplugin to isolate the java compilation goal called from its implementation. Add war:inplace goal for building the webapp into maven.war.src. You should cvsignore WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes Add target path to dependencies so you can copy to elsewhere than WEB-INF/lib. Useful for applets. Apply MAVEN-831. Copy web.xml as specified by ${maven.war.webxml} Add test project Added maven.war.index property. Accept includes/excludes patterns over maven.war.src. Allow webapp creation if project doesn't have sources. Added war:clean goal war:war goal is simply packaging (using ant jar task) the directory created by war:webapp goal. This change simplifies the customization of processing and removes code duplication. Fixes for MAVEN-481. Bundling of tlds in war is supported. Fixes for MAVEN-518. Artifact processing in the plugin was slightly changed and now it supports jar overriding mechanism Added deploy, deploy-snapshot and install-snapshot goals Allow war file to be updated Fixed the broken war goal Moved the detection of the webSources inside the 'war:war' goal itself so that webSource can be assembled on the fly. With the detection outside the 'war:war' goal webSources would not be gathered into the resulting WAR file. Added support for WARs that contain only java classes and no web resources.