Overriding default web application context root in Maven 2

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Let us assume you have to create atleast one web module in a JEE project. By default Maven assigns a context root whose value is the same as the value of artifactId in the pom.xml of the web module. The below description helps in overriding this default behaviour.

The below screenshot shows the pom.xml of the web project [module]. Hence the application.xml inside the EAR packed will have the context root as theaweb [which is nothing but the value of artifactId].



To override this default behaviour [assuming the context root should be newtheaweb], we specify the following in the pom.xml of the EAR project as in the screenshot below. Please note that the specification is within the maven-ear-plugin.



Incase we wish to provide the root context, we must provide a "/" as shown in the screen shot below. Leaving it blank will make Maven 2 to substitute with the default context root which is theaweb.