Some typing equivalents to down-hill skiing: I start at the top of the page and type all the way to the bottom. Maven 2 nice automates building WAR files, but it places your compiled classes in WEB-INF/classes instead of making a new jar in /WEB-INF/lib. If you want your stuff to be compiled as a .jar as well as a .war, you can do this by specifying the jar goal in the command line: [shell>mvn cle