diff --git a/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java b/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
index b1a50984cb..ae524780cb 100644
--- a/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
+++ b/maven-mboot2/src/main/java/MBoot.java
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ public class MBoot
         "maven-plugins/maven-plugin-plugin",
         "maven-plugins/maven-pom-plugin",
         "maven-plugins/maven-resources-plugin",
-        "maven-plugins/maven-surefire-plugin" };
+        "maven-plugins/maven-surefire-plugin",
+        "maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin" };
 
     // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     // Standard locations for resources in Maven projects.
diff --git a/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/.cvsignore b/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/.cvsignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cce9515ca7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/.cvsignore
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+target
+*~
+*.log
+.classpath
+.project
+*.ipr
+*.iws
+*.iml
diff --git a/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/pom.xml b/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ac50ea0513
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>maven</groupId>
+    <artifactId>maven-plugin-parent</artifactId>
+    <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <groupId>maven</groupId>
+  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
+  <type>plugin</type>  
+  <name>Maven War Plugin</name>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <package>org.apache.maven.plugin.war</package>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <type>plugin</type>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>plexus</groupId>
+      <artifactId>plexus-container-default</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0-alpha-2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>plexus</groupId>
+      <artifactId>plexus-archiver</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0-alpha-1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-artifact</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-core</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-model</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/war/ExplodedMojo.java b/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/war/ExplodedMojo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec50491c1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-plugins/maven-war-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/war/ExplodedMojo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+package org.apache.maven.plugin.war;
+
+/*
+ * Copyright 2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractPlugin;
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionRequest;
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionResponse;
+import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
+
+/**
+ * @goal exploded
+ * @phase process-classes
+ *
+ * @description build a jar
+ *
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="jarName"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="true"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#project.build.finalName"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="compress"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="false"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#maven.jar.compress"
+ *  default="true"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="index"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="false"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#maven.jar.index"
+ *  default="false"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="manifest"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="false"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#maven.jar.manifest"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="mainClass"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="false"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#maven.jar.mainClass"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="addClasspath"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="false"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#maven.jar.addClasspath"
+ *  default="false"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="addExtensions"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="false"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#maven.jar.addExtensions"
+ *  default="false"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="outputDirectory"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="true"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#project.build.output"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="basedir"
+ *  type="String"
+ *  required="true"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#project.build.directory"
+ *  description=""
+ * @parameter
+ *  name="project"
+ *  type="org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject"
+ *  required="true"
+ *  validator=""
+ *  expression="#project"
+ *  description="current MavenProject instance"
+ *
+ * @author <a href="evenisse@apache.org">Emmanuel Venisse</a>
+ * @version $Id$
+ */
+public class ExplodedMojo
+    extends AbstractPlugin
+{
+    public void execute( PluginExecutionRequest request, PluginExecutionResponse response )
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+        //
+        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+System.out.println("webapp");
+
+    }
+}
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