Maven is failing to download the tomcat-maven-plugin snapshot

Question

Even after wiping out my settings.xml, I still get this error when trying to use this snapshot dependency. Given the dependency:

Answer 1

First off let me say that you do not download the TomCat-Maven-Plugin for Eclipse like other Eclipse plugins.

You simply use the maven tools in Eclipse, to insert the correct maven plugin build commands into your maven pom.xml file.....

If anyone is having trouble understanding how to get their Maven project to run as a maven Build configuration, there are a couple of things you may need to look for:

I would like to upload an image but oh well....

In your Eclipse Web App, hopefully you have a Maven POM.xml file, if not you need to set that up first.

Then, you can right click on it and then find Maven in your menu, then the sub menu item comes up, with a choice called Add Plugin.

There is a field called "Enter groupId, artifactId or sha1, etc.... Type in the word Tomcat there.

It will then load search results in the box below.

Basically what this does is load details in your pom.xml as to which plugins to download when building with Maven.

After that you need to do the Maven build.

Then, you want to go to Run Configurations and make sure you have the correct path to where your webapp lives.

Also in that page, under goals type TomCat:run Then apply Finally run.

If all goes well you will have a Tomcat server running the web app. Then you can go to a browser and enter [http://localhost:8080/webappname/defaultpagename]

and walla!