Maven War Plugin

The maven war plugin will be use to generate a WAR file,and also we can provide our web server path where this war file to deploy.

<properties>
     <my.tomcat.path>C:\softwares\Tomcat\apache-tomcat-7.0.27\webapps</my.tomcat.path>
</properties>
<plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
     <version>${maven-war-plugin-version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <outputDirectory>${my.tomcat.path}</outputDirectory>
     </configuration>
</plugin>