Tony,
Maven>Update Project
has the option Update project configuration from pom.xml
. If set, it will, well, update the project configuration, including the archive name. Unfortunately, there is no way to change the default for that option.
So the choices are to either ensure this option is unset, every time you do a project update, or to alter the pom, to get the archive name you want. For the latter, you can either change the artifact ID and/or version, or make use of the <finalName>
tag in the build section of the pom. For example,
<build>
<finalName>${project.name}</finalName>
...
will set the archive name to just the project name (specified in the name
field of the pom). Or you can specify a fixed name for the archive.
Please let us know if this helps.