gradle: copy war to tomcat directory

Question

I\'m trying to write a Gradle task which copies generated war files to my local tomcat instance:

This isn\'t working and I\'m not sure how to debug it:

Answer 1

If you already have the war plugin you can also just add

war.doLast {
    copy {
        from war.archiveFile
        into "${tomcatHome}/webapps"
    }
}

Then you will always automatically deploy each time you build the war file.