How to create a Web application from the command line

One of the simplest choices to create a Java Web application with Maven is the maven-archetype-webapp. This archetype provides a minimal skeleton for creating a Web application. To create an application using this archetype in batch mode, you can use the following command:

$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.sample -DartifactId=web-project -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DinteractiveMode=false

Here is the resulting project:

├── pom.xml
└── src
    └── main
        ├── resources
        └── webapp
            ├── index.jsp
            └── WEB-INF
                └── web.xml

Within the webapp folder, you can add the web pages (JSP/HTML) of your Web application. In the resources folder you can add all files or libraries that will be included automatically in the Web application’s classpath.

Next, if you are developing a Jakarta EE application for WildFly, it is recommended to include in the pom.xml the following dependencies and the WildFly plugin so that you can deploy directly from the Command Line:

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>com.mastertheboss</groupId>
	<artifactId>jakartaee-example</artifactId>
	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<name>Jakarta EE example project</name>
	<description>A starter Jakarta EE Project</description>
	<properties>
		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
		<maven.build.timestamp.format>yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss</maven.build.timestamp.format>
		<version.wildfly.maven.plugin>2.0.0.Final</version.wildfly.maven.plugin>
	</properties>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>jakarta.platform</groupId>
		    <artifactId>jakarta.jakartaee-api</artifactId>
		    <version>8.0.0</version>
		    <scope>provided</scope>
		</dependency>
        </dependencies>
	<build>
		<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>2.3.1</version>
				<configuration>
					<source>1.8</source>
					<target>1.8</target>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
			<plugin>
				<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>3.2.3</version>
			</plugin>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
				<artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>${version.wildfly.maven.plugin}</version>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>
	<profiles>
		<profile>
			<id>default</id>
			<activation>
				<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
			</activation>
			<build>
				<plugins>
					<plugin>
						<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
						<version>2.4.3</version>
						<configuration>
							<skip>true</skip>
						</configuration>
					</plugin>
				</plugins>
			</build>
		</profile>
	</profiles>
</project>

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