title: Maven not compiling class and there is no class files in war file
body: <p>iam converting my project to maven.
  I see in war file there is no class file available.</p>
  
  <p>Below is the pom.xml and project structure.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;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"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;RetailProducts&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;RetailProducts&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;war&lt;/packaging&gt;
    &lt;name&gt;RetailProducts&lt;/name&gt;
  
    &lt;dependencies&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;com.sun.faces&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jsf-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.1.7&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;com.sun.faces&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jsf-impl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.1.7&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jstl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.2&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;servlet-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.5&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet.jsp&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;jsp-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;2.1&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
                  &lt;!-- Tomcat 6 need this --&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;com.sun.el&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;el-ri&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;1.0&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  
      &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  
      &lt;build&gt;
          &lt;finalName&gt;JavaServerFaces&lt;/finalName&gt;
  
          &lt;plugins&gt;
              &lt;plugin&gt;
                  &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;version&gt;2.3.1&lt;/version&gt;
                  &lt;configuration&gt;
                      &lt;source&gt;1.6&lt;/source&gt;
                      &lt;target&gt;1.6&lt;/target&gt;
                  &lt;/configuration&gt;
              &lt;/plugin&gt;
              &lt;plugin&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-war-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;2.1.1&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;!-- &lt;configuration&gt; section added to pick up the WEB-INF/web.xml inside WebContent --&gt;
        &lt;configuration&gt;
           &lt;webResources&gt;
              &lt;resource&gt;
                 &lt;directory&gt;WebContent&lt;/directory&gt;
              &lt;/resource&gt;
           &lt;/webResources&gt;
        &lt;/configuration&gt;
     &lt;/plugin&gt;
          &lt;/plugins&gt;
      &lt;/build&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><br> <strong>Project structure</strong></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/CSVd5.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>