title: What is "pom" packaging in maven?
body: <p>I was given a maven project to compile and get deployed on a tomcat server. I have never used maven before today, but I have been googling quite a bit. It seems like the top level <code>pom.xml</code> files in this project have the packaging type set as <code>pom</code>.</p>
  
  <p>What am I supposed to do after <code>mvn install</code> to get this application deployed? I was expecting to be able to find a <code>war</code> file somewhere or something, but I guess I am looking in the wrong place or missing a step.</p>