How to remove version number from war file

Question

I have a Dependency in child pom like this.

<dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>sample-groupID</groupId>
            <artifactId>sfint</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>  
            <type>war</type>                
        </dependency>
</dependencies>

And I am using maven-ear-plugin.

 <plugins>
  <plugin>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven.ear.plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.10</version>
    <configuration>
            <modules>
                <webModule>
                    <groupId>sample-gropuID</groupId>
                    <artifactId>sfint</artifactId>
                    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                    <moduleID>WebModule_sfint</moduleID>
                    <bundleFileName>sfint.war</bundleFileName>  
                </webModule>
            </modules>  
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

Now my problem is that I want my war file to be like this - sfint.war but I am getting it as - sfint.1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war

Any help ??

You should try to use `sfint` only...If this does not work it would be a good idea to file in a [Issue](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MEAR) — khmarbaise, Oct 29 '15 at 10:35

Gayan Mettananda · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-25T07:30:00.603

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Within the <build> tag specify the name that you need for the artifact as "finalName".

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

edited Nov 25 '22 at 07:30

answered Oct 30 '15 at 05:40

Gayan Mettananda

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`${project.artifactId}` – Ahmad Nadeem Nov 03 '21 at 05:49

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '15 at 10:35

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You can configure maven-ear-plugin to omit the version information in the EAR file:

<build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.10.1</version>
        <configuration>
           [...]
           <fileNameMapping>no-version</fileNameMapping>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

answered Oct 29 '15 at 10:35

khmarbaise

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Does not work. Still getting the snapshot version in my war file. – rajan.sngh Oct 29 '15 at 12:16
This will remove all versions including those from other dependencies, which is not always desirable. – Mustafa Apr 14 '17 at 11:32

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 19 '21 at 18:03

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Use the outputFileNameMapping option for the maven-ear-plugin plugin

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <outputFileNameMapping>@{artifactId}@@{dashClassifier?}@.@{extension}@</outputFileNameMapping>

edited Feb 19 '21 at 18:03

svarog

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answered Apr 17 '18 at 12:49

romsky

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 09 '16 at 09:11

This will solve your problem:

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>myEAR</groupId>
  <artifactId>myEAR</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>ear</packaging>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.10</version>
        <configuration>
          <earSourceDirectory>EarContent</earSourceDirectory>
          <generateApplicationXml>false</generateApplicationXml>
          <version>6</version>
          <defaultLibBundleDir>lib</defaultLibBundleDir>
          <fileNameMapping>no-version</fileNameMapping>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>myWAR</groupId>
        <artifactId>myWAR</artifactId>
        <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>war</type>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

your final EAR will be myEAR-0.0.1.SNAPSHOT.EAR that contains myWAR.war (without version number) if you want to remove version number from EAR also than add myEar

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 14 '17 at 12:21

If the war/ejb is part of an ear project, one should use bundleFileName to change the module names in the final ear artifact.

<plugin>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>${version.ear.plugin}</version>
   <configuration>
     <modules>
       <webModule>
         <groupId>com.foo</groupId>
         <artifactId>myapp-web</artifactId>
         <contextRoot>/myapp</contextRoot>
         <bundleFileName>myapp-web.war</bundleFileName>
       </webModule>
       <ejbModule>
         <groupId>com.foo</groupId>
         <artifactId>myapp-ejb</artifactId>
         <bundleFileName>myapp-ejb.jar</bundleFileName>
       </ejbModule>
     </modules>
   </configuration>
 </plugin>

How to remove version number from war file

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