tomcatPom

parental POM for Metalcon projects using Tomcat including

• WAR export plugin
• Tomcat auto deployment plugin
• Jetty server for debugging

Use in projects

See https://github.com/Metalcon/pom/ how to use a parental pom.

Tomcat auto deployment

To use auto deployment to your local Tomcat server you have to have Tomcat configured correctly. There must be a server local-tomcat in your Maven Settings file.
Be aware of that the credentials of this server must be set to a Tomcat user with role manager-script.

Set tomcat.deploy-plugin.path to the path for your web application:

<project ..>
  ...
  <properties>
    <!-- Tomcat deployment path -->
    <tomcat.deploy-plugin.path>/mywebapp</tomcat.deploy-plugin.path>
  </properties>
  ...
</project>

Use mvn tomcat7:deploy or redeploy.
(mvn tomcat:deploy will result in HTTP Status message 403 for Tomcat 7 with the plugin used.)

Versions

Type	ArtifactId	Version	Variable
Plugin	maven-war-plugin	2.4	war-plugin.version
Plugin	tomcat7-maven-plugin	2.2	tomcat.deploy-plugin.version
Plugin	jetty-maven-plugin	9.1.3.v20140225	jetty-plugin.version