How to run a Maven Project In Tomcat From Eclipse

Question

I am running a multi level maven project. It has webapps packaged as WAR, which depend on components packaged as JAR files

Most of the code changes that i do belong

Answer 1

I use the eclipse webtools plugin, and run my Tomcat from it. It has a republish method that publishes the jars as well (if not, you just clean the directory and republish).

In the pom file, you should have the following lines so that the webtools will be supported automatically

    ...
    
        
            maven-eclipse-plugin
            
                1.5
                ...
            
        
        ...
    
    ...