Maven project install not working
<p>It is the second time i try to build a project with Maven, and it just doesn't work... I have no idea what to do.</p>

<p>Here are my specs:</p>

<pre><code>    Apache Maven 3.3.9 (bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5; 2015-11-10T16:41:47+00:00)
    Maven home: C:\Program Files\Apache\maven
    Java version: 1.7.0_79, vendor: Oracle Corporation
    Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_79\jre
    Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: Cp1252
    OS name: "windows 8.1", version: "6.3", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"
</code></pre>

<p>here is my pom.xml:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;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"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;

    &lt;groupId&gt;com.stormpath.samples&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;stormpath-webapp-tutorial&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.1.0&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;war&lt;/packaging&gt;

    &lt;dependencies&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;com.stormpath.sdk&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;stormpath-servlet-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;1.1.1&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;javax.servlet-api&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;3.1.0&lt;/version&gt;
            &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;jstl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;1.2&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;ch.qos.logback&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;logback-classic&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;1.1.7&lt;/version&gt;
            &lt;scope&gt;runtime&lt;/scope&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;

    &lt;build&gt;
        &lt;plugins&gt;
            &lt;plugin&gt;
                &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.tomcat.maven&lt;/groupId&gt;
                &lt;artifactId&gt;tomcat7-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                &lt;version&gt;2.2&lt;/version&gt;
                &lt;configuration&gt;
                    &lt;path&gt;/&lt;/path&gt;
                &lt;/configuration&gt;
            &lt;/plugin&gt;
        &lt;/plugins&gt;
    &lt;/build&gt;

&lt;/project&gt;
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<p>I run the command: "mvn clean install -e" and I end up getting this error:</p>

<pre><code>Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.2:war (default-war) on project stormpath-webapp-tutorial: Error assembling WAR: webxml attribute is required (or pre-existing WEB-INF/web.xml if executing in update mode) -&gt; [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.2:war (default-war) on project stormpath-webapp-tutorial: Error assembling WAR: webxml attribute is required (or pre-existing WEB-INF/web.xml if executing in update mode)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:212)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:116)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:307)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:193)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:106)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:863)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:288)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:199)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error assembling WAR: webxml attribute is required (or pre-existing WEB-INF/web.xml if executing in update mode)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.WarMojo.execute(WarMojo.java:193)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:207)
        ... 20 more
Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.ArchiverException: webxml attribute is required (or pre-existing WEB-INF/web.xml if executing in update mode)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.war.WarArchiver.initZipOutputStream(WarArchiver.java:148)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.zip.AbstractZipArchiver.createArchiveMain(AbstractZipArchiver.java:309)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.zip.AbstractZipArchiver.execute(AbstractZipArchiver.java:211)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.AbstractArchiver.createArchive(AbstractArchiver.java:897)
        at org.apache.maven.archiver.MavenArchiver.createArchive(MavenArchiver.java:582)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.WarMojo.performPackaging(WarMojo.java:243)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.WarMojo.execute(WarMojo.java:177)
        ... 22 more
</code></pre>

<p>I dont get what the error message means, i have therefore tried to create a folder called WEB-INF in the same folder as my pom.xml and a blank web.xml file inside of it but i still get the same thing.</p>