Tomcat 8 Maven Plugin for Java 8

Question

Is the tomcat7-maven-plugin working with a tomcat 8 server and java 8? I can\'t find any tomcat8-maven-plugin.

Answer 1

Plugin run Tomcat 7.0.47:

mvn org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.2:run

 ...
 INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.47

This is sample to run plugin with Tomcat 8 and Java 8: Cargo embedded tomcat: custom context.xml