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Building Project with Maven

Overview​

This section explains how to generate a WAR (Web Application Archive) for a WaveMaker project using Maven. The generated WAR file can be deployed on a local machine or on a web server.

Introduction​

A Maven-based build allows you to generate a WAR file outside the WaveMaker Studio. This approach is commonly used in automated build pipelines or environments where builds are triggered from the command line.

Download Project ZIP from Studio​

To build the project using Maven, first download the project source from WaveMaker Studio.

  1. Export the project as a ZIP file from the Studio.

    Export project as ZIP

  2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file.

  3. Note the extracted project location path.

  4. Open a command line terminal and navigate to the project location:

    cd <location>

Choose Profile and Build War file​

A WaveMaker project includes two default profiles: development and deployment. When building the project, prefix the profile name with -P. If no profile is specified, the development profile is used by default.To know more about profile configuration, refer [link to release management profile config]

  • Use the below command to do a maven build with the profile.
mvn clean install -P<ProfileName>

For example

mvn clean install -Pdeployment
  • This will generate a project war file in the target directory. This file has both frontend artifacts (HTML, CSS, JS, images, etc), and backend artifacts (Java Classes).
  • This can be deployed into any webserver like Tomcat. Refer Tomcat Deployment.
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To learn how to generate a WAR file using Maven in WaveMaker, watch the video below:

▶️ Generate a WAR using MAVEN

Generate a WAR using MAVEN

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