title: Speed up maven war plugin
body: <p>The maven plugin works very slow for me. In my project the webapp folder has nearly 15000 small files (images, jsp, css, etc). When I assemble it with the maven, it first copies all files to the <code>target/myProject-1.0.0</code> directory, then builds <code>myProject-1.0.0.war</code> file from it. The copy process takes 10 minutes, building the <code>.war</code> takes 2 minutes.</p>
  
  <p>As I see the build could be much faster if the <code>.war</code> file will be assembled straight from the webapp folder. Is it possible to do?</p>