The only thing activiti-webapp-explorer2 contains is the web.xml and some configuration. Since the activiti-explorer is a dependency of the war, it's built into the WAR in the lib-folder.
The app itself is booted thanks to an entry in the web.xml that points to a spring-context file in the activiti-explorer… That's all there is to it
The app itself is booted thanks to an entry in the web.xml that points to a spring-context file in the activiti-explorer… That's all there is to it
I guess my question is misunderstood 
My point is the context root here. WAR you are distributing as part of binaries is named - activiti-explorer.war and on deployment takes the context root as /activiti-explorer ( http://localhost:8080/activiti-explorer).
But the generated war(thro sources) has the name - activiti-webapp-explorer2.war and hence takes a different context root i,e /activiti-webapp-explorer2 ( http://localhost:8080/activiti-webapp-explorer2). I have to add <code><finalName>activiti-explorer</finalName> </code>in the POM to get the desired context-root.
My question was how did you generate activiti-explorer.war , instead of activiti-webapp-explorer2.war
My point is the context root here. WAR you are distributing as part of binaries is named - activiti-explorer.war and on deployment takes the context root as /activiti-explorer ( http://localhost:8080/activiti-explorer).
But the generated war(thro sources) has the name - activiti-webapp-explorer2.war and hence takes a different context root i,e /activiti-webapp-explorer2 ( http://localhost:8080/activiti-webapp-explorer2). I have to add <code><finalName>activiti-explorer</finalName> </code>in the POM to get the desired context-root.
My question was how did you generate activiti-explorer.war , instead of activiti-webapp-explorer2.war
Oh, I see.. This is done in out build.xml for creating the "distro":
This is done in out build.xml for creating the "distro": <target name="copy.webapps">
<mkdir dir="${target.distro.root}/wars" />
<copy todir="${target.distro.root}/wars">
<fileset dir="../modules/activiti-webapp-explorer2/target">
<include name="activiti-webapp-explorer*.war" />
</fileset>
<fileset dir="../modules/activiti-webapp-rest2/target">
<include name="activiti-webapp-rest*.war" />
</fileset>
</copy>
<move file="${target.distro.root}/wars/activiti-webapp-explorer2-${activiti.version}.war" tofile="${target.distro.root}/wars/activiti-explorer.war"/>
<move file="${target.distro.root}/wars/activiti-webapp-rest2-${activiti.version}.war" tofile="${target.distro.root}/wars/activiti-rest.war"/>
</target>
