Intellij and Apache Tomcat not updating

Question

I have a project going on for a couple of months now using a Spring MVC framework. For developing I am using an Apache Tomcat 8.0.17 with an exploded war file. Everything wo

Answer 1

I could fix this by manually deleting all the files in the following folder:

%userdir%/.IntelliJIdea14/system/tomcat

After a full rebuild the updateing process works perfectly again.

Answer 2

Use this is VM Options:

-Dcatalina.home=%tomcat_folder% -Dwtp.deploy=%tomcat_folder%/webapps -Dcatalina.base=%tomcat_folder%