title: How to make war file in Eclipse
body: <p>What is the easy way to make war file?</p>
  
  <p>My project is working when i right click run on server, but i want to deploy on tomcat server.
  I have installed <code>m2clipse</code> but it gave me an error.</p>
  
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  <li>Is maven compulsory to make war file?</li>
  <li><p>Do i need special directory structure to make war with eclipse?</p>
  
  <p>Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war (default-war) on project testing2: Error assembling WAR: webxml attribute is required (or pre-existing WEB-INF/web.xml if executing in update mode) -> [Help 1]
  [ERROR]</p></li>
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