Maven assembly plugin descriptor to bundle all WAR dependencies into a zip file, including local resource files. This is useful when you don't use EARs, but still want to package several web applications into one big archive, plus any additional stuff (e.g. configuration files) needed for deployment.

wars-dist.xml

<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd">
    <!-- A Maven assembly plugin descriptor to bundle all WAR dependencies into a zip file, including local
     resource files. This is useful when you don't use EARs, but still want to package several web applications
     into one big archive, plus any additional stuff (e.g. configuration files) needed for deployment. -->

    <id>dist</id>
    <formats>
        <format>zip</format>
    </formats>

    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>

    <dependencySets>
        <dependencySet> <!-- include all WAR dependencies, with artifactName.war format (no versions) -->
            <outputFileNameMapping>${artifact.artifactId}.${artifact.extension}</outputFileNameMapping>
            <unpack>false</unpack>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <outputDirectory>applications/</outputDirectory>
            <includes>
                <include>*:*:war:*</include>
            </includes>
        </dependencySet>
    </dependencySets>

    <fileSets>
        <fileSet> <!-- include resource files in this project -->
            <filtered>true</filtered>
            <outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory>
            <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
            <includes>
                <include>*</include>
            </includes>
        </fileSet>
    </fileSets>
</assembly>