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Karl Heinz Marbaise commented on MWAR-262: ------------------------------------------ I will change the default from {{true}} to {{false}} > <failOnMissingWebXml> default value should be false for Servlet level > 2.5 > projects > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: MWAR-262 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-262 > Project: Maven WAR Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 2.1.1 > Reporter: Fred Bricon > Fix For: 3.0.0 > > > Since JavaEE 5, the web.xml deployment descriptor is optional. In this case > <failOnMissingWebXml> should default to false. > How do we do detect that? > - introduce a new <version> or <servletVersion> attribute to the > configuration, similar to the <version> in maven-ear-plugin and > maven-ejb-plugin > - check if the project's classpath contains classes fom JavaEE > 5 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)