Tomcat 8 integration with Maven

Question

It sounds like Eclipse (Kepler) does not have a proper plugin for Tomcat 8. I want to deploy my .war into Tomcat 8 and run it by Maven pom.xml file. Can anyone provide me st

Answer 1

Just in case you use a separate Tomcat local server. If you use embedded tomcat, this is not applicable.

In your pom.xml, add the tomcat plugin. (You can use this for both Tomcat 7 and 8):

pom.xml

  
  
 org.apache.tomcat.maven  
 tomcat7-maven-plugin  
 2.2  
   
  http:// localhost:8080/manager/text  
  TomcatServer    *(From maven > settings.xml)*
  *yourtomcatusername*  
  *yourtomcatpassword*   
    
   

tomcat-users.xml

settings.xml (maven > conf)

  
    
       TomcatServer
       admin
       password
    
  

* deploy/re-deploy

mvn tomcat7:deploy OR mvn tomcat7:redeploy

Tried this on (Both Ubuntu and Windows 8/10):
* Jdk 7 & Tomcat 7
* Jdk 7 & Tomcat 8
* Jdk 8 & Tomcat 7
* Jdk 8 & Tomcat 8

Tested on Both Jdk 7/8 & Tomcat 7/8. (Works with Tomcat 8.5 Also, will test Tomcat 9 soon)

Note:
Tomcat manager should be running or properly setup, before you can use it with maven.