This recipe describes how to overlay content onto the Jenkins WAR file. With a WAR overlay, you can change the Jenkins look and feel ready for corporate branding and content provisioning of home pages. The basic example of adding your own custom favicon.ico (the icon in your web browser's address bar) is used. It requires little effort to include more content.
Jenkins keeps its versions as dependencies in a Maven repository. You can use Maven to pull in the WAR file, expand it, add content, and then repackage. This enables you to provision resources such as images, home pages, the icon in the address bar called a fav icon, and robots.txt that affects how search engines look through your content.
Be careful, using a WAR overlay will be cheap if the structure and the graphical content of Jenkins do not radically change over...