How do I create a web application project using maven?

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mvn archetype:create

 -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes

 -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp

 -DarchetypeVersion=1.0

 -DgroupId=com.maventest

 -DartifactId=mywebtest

 -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT

mvn archetype:create

 -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes

 -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp

 -DarchetypeVersion=1.0

 -DgroupId=com.company

 -DartifactId=project

 -Dversion=1.0

Eg.: mvn archetype:create  -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes  -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0  -DgroupId=com.company  -DartifactId=resteasydemo  -Dversion=1.0

How to create the war file?

Run ‘mvn install’

Reference:

http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-create-a-web-application-project-using-maven.html;jsessionid=2AA2F62212BBFD9D0946FB8190BF8711

How to create simple java project?

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.nuwan.springdemo -DartifactId=spring-demo -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false