Get rid of Maven directory in your WAR

While you are packaging your web application with Maven you might have encountered, that your pom.xml and other Maven related files are also packed into your archive. To get rid of this directory adopt your pom.xml and configure the maven-war-plugin:

<plugin>
  <groupId<org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId<maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <version<2.2</version>
  <configuration>
    <archive>
      <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>

With adding addMavenDescriptor=false WAR packaging will dismiss the the pom.xml in your archive.