How to replace a value in web.xml with a Maven property?

Question

I have a Maven project that downloads some test files into its build directory ./target/files. These files should then be available to a servlet, which I can ea

Answer 1

Add to your pom section:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-war-plugin
    
        
            
                true
                src/main/webapp
                
                    **/web.xml
                
            
        
        src/main/webapp
        src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
    

See Maven: Customize web.xml of web-app project for more details