Increase memory of tomcat7 maven plugin?

Question

I want to start an embedded tomcat7 instance directly from maven using the tomcat7-maven-plugin. This is working fine, but the Tomcat started doesn\'t seem to have enough me

Answer 1

As most said in the comments above the properties in pom.xml has no effct. What worked for me was setting my MAVEN_OPTS

MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

Or on Windows in a cmd terminal:

set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

For mac/linux users, just add an export statement to your ~/.profile (or similar file name). For example:

export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

And restart your shell.