Might be a stupid question, but in my current maven project i do not have a web.xml in my /web-app/WEB-INF folder.

There is no web-xml in my project and never has been, im trying to add it but my application is non-responsive to anything written in the web.xml. What am i missing?, iv tried specifying the path to it through the config.groovy like:

grails.project.web.xml="web-app/WEB-INF/web.xml"  

Am i missing something? Do i need to specify the web.xml in some other config file in order to make my project utilize it ?