A required class was missing while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war

Does the class org.apache.maven.shared.filtering.MavenFilteringException exist in file:/C:/Users/utopcu/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-filtering/1.0-beta-2/maven-filtering-1.0-beta-2.jar?

The error message suggests that it doesn't. Maybe the JAR was corrupted somehow.

I'm also wondering where the version 1.0-beta-2 comes from; I have 1.0 on my disk. Try version 2.3 of the WAR plugin.

Try to delete the maven folder at ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven and build your project again to force the maven libraries be downloaded. This worked for me the last time I faced this java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/maven/shared/filtering/MavenFilteringException.

Faced the same issue and resolved by upgrading my Maven from 3.0.4 to 3.1.1. Please try with v3.1.1 or any higher version if available