On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Gavin King <gavin.king(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: The standard behavior for Maven is to add its own properties file into the artifact containing buildtime information. Max will be happy when I say that there is a stackoverflow.com answer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1477587/how-to-exclude-pom-xml-from-ma... One suggestion is this config, but in a quick test it didn't work for me. <project> ... <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0</version> <configuration> <archive> <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor> </archive> </configuration> </plugin> ... </plugins> </build> ... </project> -Dan -- Dan Allen Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://www.google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen