How to build maven project without version?

Question

I have a maven project that I want to build without version.

Now, when I build the project using maven, it creates this commonjerseylib-1.0.war but I need this commonjerseylib.war to be created.

In addition to that, I remove <version> tag from pom.xml but still Maven is creating with war with version 1.0 by default.

My pom.xml :

      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
      <groupId>commonjerseylib</groupId>
      <artifactId>commonjerseylib</artifactId>
      <packaging>ear</packaging>
      <name>commonjerseylib</name>
      <!--<version>1.0</version>-->

How to build it without version ?

score 194 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 19 '16 at 23:01

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You will always need a version number for a project, however it is possible to change the name of the generated package (JAR, WAR, EAR, etc.) through the <finalName> element in the POM.

<project>
    ...
    <build>
        ...
        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
        ...
    </build>
    ...
</project>

or in older versions of maven:

        ...
        <finalName>${artifactId}</finalName>
        ...

By default, the finalName is ${project.artifactId}-${project.version}, but this can be changed to something else. This will only affect the name of the package created in the target directory; the file name in the local repository and uploaded to remote repositories will always have a version number.

See the POM reference documentation for more information.

edited Feb 19 '16 at 23:01

Eponymous

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answered Mar 06 '12 at 23:33

prunge

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That's perfect, Clear and clean! – Thomas Oct 17 '13 at 08:57
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As of at least Maven 3.0.3, ${artifactId} is deprecated in favor of ${project.artifactId}. – Glenn Jul 09 '14 at 18:03
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@prunge : Thank you for the answer. Do you know any way to do it as it effect to the the file name in the local repository and remote repositories. – namalfernandolk Apr 21 '15 at 09:33
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Note that it does not work to override from the command line like `-Dproject.build.finalName=whatever` - if you want to be able to specify the jar's name on the command line, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/13877971/587365 – Andrew Spencer Aug 20 '19 at 08:25
how can i do this in spring boot – Youssef Boudaya Jun 24 '21 at 16:06

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '15 at 07:14

in maven war plugin in build, change

<warName> ${artifactId} </warName>

        <build>
           ..........
             <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <!-- web.xml is not mandatory since JavaEE 5 -->
                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                    <warName>${artifactId}</warName>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
         .............
       <build>

score -4 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 28 '21 at 11:42

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I fixed it with the below lines of code in the pom

<project>
    ...
    <build>
        ...
        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
        ...
    </build>
    ...
</project>

edited Oct 28 '21 at 11:42

Ahmed Ashour

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answered Oct 30 '20 at 11:23

Shahid Hussain Abbasi

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