Maven WAR dependency

There’s another option since maven-war-plugin 2.1-alpha-2. In your WAR project:

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <attachClasses>true</attachClasses>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

This creates a classes artifact which you can use in the acceptance tests project with:

<dependency>
    <groupId>your-group-id</groupId>
    <artifactId>your-artifact-id</artifactId>
    <version>your-version</version>
    <classifier>classes</classifier>
</dependency>

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