maven-tomcat7-plugin produces corrupted executable JAR

Question

I have problem using Maven Tomcat7 plugin to produce JAR archives with embedded Tomcat7 instance. Here is my pom.xml snippet:

Answer 1

This is indeed a bug in the tomcat7 maven plugin version 2.2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MTOMCAT-263

Use version 2.1 or wait for 2.3 to be released.