Using Vaadin with Maven

Vaadin is a comprehensive framework for developing web applications in Java. The Vaadin web site presents a number of ways to use Vaadin with Maven, but I am not completely satisfied with any of those. Here is how I do it.

Use a pom.xml like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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>com.thecompany</groupId>
	<artifactId>theapp</artifactId>
	<version>1.0</version>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<name>The App</name>
    
	<dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
            <artifactId>vaadin</artifactId>
            <version>6.3.3</version>
        </dependency>
	</dependencies>

	<build>
		<plugins>
	        <plugin>
	            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
	            <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
	            <configuration>
	              <overlays>
	                <overlay>
		              <groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
		              <artifactId>vaadin</artifactId>
		              <type>jar</type>
		              <includes>
		                <include>VAADIN/**</include>
		              </includes>
	                </overlay>
	              </overlays>
	            </configuration>
	         </plugin>

		<plugin>
			<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
			<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
			<version>6.1.17</version>
		</plugin>
        </plugins>		
	</build>
</project>

And a src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml like this:

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