Chapter 3. Creating a maven project for web-application development

Procedure

1. Set up a Maven project using the mvn command. The command creates the directory structure for the project and the pom.xml configuration file.

   Syntax

   $ mvn archetype:generate \
   -DgroupId=${group-to-which-your-application-belongs} \
   -DartifactId=${name-of-your-application} \
   -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \
   -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp \
   -DinteractiveMode=false

   Example

   $ mvn archetype:generate \
   -DgroupId=com.example.app \
   -DartifactId=simple-webapp-example \
   -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \
   -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp \
   -DinteractiveMode=false

2. Navigate to the application root directory:

   Syntax

   $ cd <name-of-your-application>

   Example

   $ cd simple-webapp-example

3. Replace the content of the generated pom.xml file with the following text:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   
   <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   
     <groupId>com.example.app</groupId>
     <artifactId>simple-webapp-example</artifactId>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>war</packaging>
   
     <name>simple-webapp-example Maven Webapp</name>
     <!-- FIXME change it to the project's website -->
     <url>http://www.example.com</url>
   
     <properties>
       <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
       <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
       <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
     </properties>
   
     <dependencies>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>jakarta.servlet</groupId>
         <artifactId>jakarta.servlet-api</artifactId>
         <version>6.0.0</version>
         <scope>provided</scope>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.wildfly.security</groupId>
         <artifactId>wildfly-elytron-auth-server</artifactId>
         <version>1.19.0.Final</version>
       </dependency>
     </dependencies>
   
     <build>
       <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
       <plugins>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>2.1.0.Final</version>
         </plugin>
       </plugins>
     </build>
   
   </project>