the starter text in pom.properties of any WAR produced by maven starts with like
#Generated by Maven
#Thu May 12 10:01:48 CST 2016
how can i remove these two lines in the file?
Developer here. The first comment is written by us, Maven Archiver, to identify that this file is autogenerated and not handcrafted. The second line is added by Sun's Properties#store()
implementation. Have a look at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-494.