IntelliJ community can't find Web Application Artifact to generate WAR

Question

I'm using IntelliJ-IDEA Community Edition to generate a war file from a Maven-Project.

When it comes to generate this war file I can't find the war option among the artifacts.

I've tried to:

1) go to File>Project Structure>Artifacts>Type, but WAR is not mentioned;

2) right click on Project Module > add Framework Support, but Web Application is not mentioned (I only have Groovy, Kotlin(Java), Kotlin (JavaScript).

This is my pom.xml file:

    <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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
      <groupId>mawashi.alex.firstapp</groupId>
      <artifactId>firstapp</artifactId>
      <packaging>war</packaging>
      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <name>firstapp</name>
      <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <parent>
     <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
     <version>1.2.7.RELEASE</version>
  </parent>
  <properties>
     <java.version>1.8</java.version>
  </properties>

  <dependencies>
    <!--automatic configuration for web applications-->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
      <version>1.4.1.RELEASE</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugins</artifactId>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>spring-milestone</id>
      <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
      <id>sonatype-snapshots</id>
      <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
      </snapshots>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

  <pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <id>spring-milestone</id>
      <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
    </pluginRepository>
    <pluginRepository>
      <id>jetty</id>
      <url>http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.eclipse.jetty</url>
    </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>

</project>

How can I move forward?

Which build would you like to use? Can you tell us more about your pom.xml? Have you set a maven plugin or something? — Nano, Nov 07 '16 at 15:56

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '16 at 19:22

You are looking in the correct place (File>Project Structure>Artifacts), but this is not a feature of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.

Here's what Artifacts looks like in Ultimate Edition:

Whereas — when I open the same project using Community Edition:

You are going to have to use Maven package directly:

This will output an artefact to your target folder.

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 07 '16 at 16:03

7

Try this:

On the top right of the IntelliJ window search Maven Project
Select the build you like in the lifecycle tab

Hope this is the solution you were looking for!

answered Nov 07 '16 at 16:03

Nano

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I've posted a picture, if you can watch it! Thank you so much for your effort. I still have problems, not finding the war artifact and also on the unknown plugin of the springboot (as you can see on the image). – Alessandro Argentieri Nov 07 '16 at 16:19
Double click on package and the war should be generated (in the target folder, I guess) – Nano Nov 07 '16 at 16:40

IntelliJ community can't find Web Application Artifact to generate WAR

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