Yes, I'm using pom to get jars and such. Also, I know that I can export to generate the war file. However, when I try to create the artifacts from system command mvn install, then it creates crazy directories under target. Such as having WEB-INF directory under WEB-INF. I can understand this because it is not in default structure defined by Maven however, I have a business reason to create this outside of MyEclipse. Is there a easy way to do this or do I really have to map out everything to create the war file?

I have asked the dev team to look into this issue. They will get back to you with a reply asap.

At the end, I put additional configuration to tell how to generate the war file. I think it would be good if this part of the config is autogenerated when maven is used for web project.