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[[war_plugin]]
= The War Plugin

The War plugin extends the Java plugin to add support for assembling web application WAR files. It disables the default JAR archive generation of the Java plugin and adds a default WAR archive task.

[[sec:war_usage]]
== Usage

To use the War plugin, include the following in your build script:

=== Example: Using the War plugin

[source.multi-language-sample,groovy]
.build.gradle
----
include::{samplesPath}/webApplication/quickstart/build.gradle[tag=use-war-plugin]
----

[[sec:war_project_layout]]
== Project layout

In addition to the <<java_plugin.adoc#sec:java_project_layout,standard Java project layout>>, the War Plugin adds:

`src/main/webapp`::
Web application sources

[[sec:war_tasks]]
== Tasks

The War plugin adds and modifies the following tasks:

`war` — link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.War.html[War]::
_Depends on_: `compile`
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Assembles the application WAR file.

`assemble` - _lifecycle task_::
_Depends on_: `war`

The War plugin adds the following dependencies to tasks added by the Java plugin;

.War plugin - tasks
image::warPluginTasks.png[]

[[sec:war_dependency_management]]
== Dependency management

The War plugin adds two dependency configurations:

 * `providedCompile`
 * `providedRuntime`

These two configurations have the same scope as the respective `compile` and `runtime` configurations, except that they are not added to the WAR archive.

It is important to note that these `provided` configurations work transitively. Let's say you add `commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.0` to any of the provided configurations. This dependency has a dependency on `commons-codec`. Because this is a “provided” configuration, this means that neither of these dependencies will be added to your WAR, even if the `commons-codec` library is an explicit dependency of your `compile` configuration. If you don't want this transitive behavior, simply declare your `provided` dependencies like `commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.0@jar`.

[[sec:war_plugin_publishing]]
== Publishing

`components.web`::
A link:{javadocPath}/org/gradle/api/component/SoftwareComponent.html[SoftwareComponent] for <<publishing_overview.adoc#publishing_overview,publishing>> the production WAR created by the `war` task.

[[sec:war_convention_properties]]
== Convention properties

`webAppDirName` — `String`::
_Default value_: `src/main/webapp`
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The name of the web application source directory, relative to the project directory.

`webAppDir` — (read-only) `File`::
_Default value_: `$webAppDirName`, e.g. _src/main/webapp_
+
The path to the web application source directory.

These properties are provided by a link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.plugins.WarPluginConvention.html[WarPluginConvention] object.

[[sec:war_default_settings]]
== War

The default behavior of the `War` task is to copy the content of `src/main/webapp` to the root of the archive. Your `webapp` directory may of course contain a `WEB-INF` sub-directory, which may contain a `web.xml` file. Your compiled classes are compiled to `WEB-INF/classes`. All the dependencies of the `runtime` footnote:[The `runtime` configuration extends the `compile` configuration.] configuration are copied to `WEB-INF/lib`.

The link:{groovyDslPath}/org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.War.html[War] class in the API documentation has additional useful information.

[[sec:war_customizing]]
== Customizing

Here is an example with the most important customization options:

=== Example: Customization of war plugin

[source.multi-language-sample,groovy]
.build.gradle
----
include::{samplesPath}/webApplication/customized/build.gradle[tag=customization]
----

Of course one can configure the different file-sets with a closure to define excludes and includes.
