STEPS TO RESOLVE ERROR ASSEMBLING WAR WEBXML ATTRIBUTE IS REQUIRED
How to Resolve “Error assembling WAR: webxml attribute is required???
We can FIX this in 2 way. But I am suggesting the second way. I will tell you reason in later part of video.
1. Add a plug-in dependency with failOnMissionWebXml configuration – syntax available in description as well as in next slide.
2. Add WEB-INF/web.xml in the child war module inside webapp folder under src/main/webapp.
Syntax:
build
plugins
plugin
groupId org.apache.maven.plugins groupId
artifactId maven-war-plugin artifactId
version 2.3 version
configuration
failOnMissingWebXml false failOnMissingWebXml
configuration
plugin
plugins
build
Reason for suggesting second as best option – One can resolve the build issue using failOnMissionWebXml but for servlet communication post deployment of your war in any server requires web.xml file. You can’t skip this step there.