title: maven 3.3 support for Websphere 8.5.5 - pom.xml
body: <p>I could not find a way to deploy my war file in websphere 8.5.5 using maven's pom.xml.
  I see there is a plugin called was6-maven-plugin-1.2.1. and it can support WAS 6+, 7+, 8+ as well it seems.</p>
  
  <p>But i could not deploy a war file using this plugin. It throws the following error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:was6-maven-plugin:1.2.1:installApp (default-cli) on project TEST: Bad archive: C:\test.war -&gt; [Help 1]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please comment on...</p>
  
  <p>My pom.xml configuration FYR:</p>
  
  <pre><code>            &lt;plugin&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.codehaus.mojo&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;was6-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;1.2.1&lt;/version&gt;
            &lt;executions&gt;
              &lt;execution&gt;
                &lt;id&gt;integration-test&lt;/id&gt;
                &lt;phase&gt;integration-test&lt;/phase&gt;
                &lt;goals&gt;
                  &lt;goal&gt;installApp&lt;/goal&gt;
                &lt;/goals&gt;
              &lt;/execution&gt;
            &lt;/executions&gt;
            &lt;configuration&gt;
              &lt;wasHome&gt;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer&lt;/wasHome&gt;
              &lt;host&gt;127.0.0.1&lt;/host&gt;
              &lt;server&gt;server1&lt;/server&gt;
              &lt;node&gt;localhostNode01&lt;/node&gt;
              &lt;virtualHost&gt;default_host&lt;/virtualHost&gt;
              &lt;verbose&gt;true&lt;/verbose&gt;
              &lt;conntype&gt;SOAP&lt;/conntype&gt;
              &lt;port&gt;8880&lt;/port&gt;
              &lt;earFile&gt;test.war&lt;/earFile&gt;
              &lt;verbose&gt;true&lt;/verbose&gt;
              &lt;updateExisting&gt;true&lt;/updateExisting&gt;
              &lt;applicationName&gt;${project.build.finalName}&lt;/applicationName&gt;                           
            &lt;/configuration&gt;
          &lt;/plugin&gt;
  </code></pre>