Run the ant target that creates the war file

We can configure maven-antrun-plugin so that it will copy that war file or ear file into server deployment folder. In my case, I have multi module project and one module is a web module. I should place the the maven-antrun-plugin into web module's pom. If you inspect the above snip of pom. It simply says that "execute this ant target just after the install life cycle phase" of the maven build.

With the execution of ' install ' , maven will the package the whole project into the local repository as a war file or ear file, for use as a dependency in other projects locally. Also this will create the same file in the target directory of your workspace as well. Our target is to copy that file from target director to server deployment folder with the build. Now build the your project or project module. You can navigate to your project directory or project module directory where our modified pom.

Run the following command. You can run that command in root project level which build the entire project, or you can run it for specific project module, which build only that project.

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