I am using Maven 2 and I have an external Tomcat 7. I was wondering how to run Tomcat 7 from using Maven Tomcat plugin.
And does Maven Tomcat plugin in Maven 3 runs the Tomcat 7 by default.
Thanks.
This works for me: http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.1/
With this plugin config:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<configuration>
<path>/</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
And running with
mvn clean install tomcat7:run
(Please note that tomcat7:run
, not tomcat:run
.)
Plugin documentation is here: http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.1/tomcat7-maven-plugin/plugin-info.html
For example, the default value of additionalConfigFilesDir
is ${basedir}/src/main/tomcatconf
, so if you put your configs into this directory it will be used on tomcat7:run
.
mvn -X tomcat7:run
prints the configration, for example:
[DEBUG] (f) additionalConfigFilesDir = /workspace/webtest1/src/main/tomcatconf
[DEBUG] (f) configurationDir = /workspace/webtest1/target/tomcat
...
[DEBUG] (f) path = /webtest1
...
[DEBUG] (f) port = 8080
[DEBUG] (f) project = ...:webtest1:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT @ /workspace/webtest1/pom.xml
...
[DEBUG] (f) warSourceDirectory = /workspace/webtest1/src/main/webapp
Note that warSourceDirectory
points to src
(not target
), so it runs as an usual dynamic web project, you could change your JSPs, HTMLs and it will visible immediately. That's why the target/tomcat/webapps
folder is empty.