Having a maven project build its own dependencies?

Question

With maven is it possible to have a top-level project who\'s packaging type is \"war\" which will build itself and all of its dependent modules (packaged as jar) and have the bu

Answer 1

This is not possible in Maven 1, 2 or 3.

I'd recommend to give up this idea, because Maven's whole purpose is to enforce standardized development process. Don't fight the structure, just create a parent POM module and make the WAR module and other dependencies underneath it.