If your Maven-built Web project has a large number of dependencies or depends on projects whose version number is updated frequently, you may want to cleanup its .../WEB-INF/lib directory. After dabbling quite a bit with bat/bash scripts and some maven plugins I found out that an additional cleanup directory can be included to the Maven Clean Plugin.
Below is the pom.xml excerpt to instruct maven-clean-plugin to delete all .jar files under the project's .../WEB-INF/lib directory.
[code language='xml']
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
...
Read more