Apache Tomcat 7 Maven plugin

I was searching for Apache Tomcat 7 Maven plugin. I found only messages that no such thing exists and that I have to use some workaround. Finally I found link at StackOwerflow that pointed me to the testing version of such a plugin.

You just need to configure repository and update mojo definition.

 <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>people.apache.snapshots</id>
      <url>http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
      <releases>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
      </snapshots>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

  <pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <id>apache.snapshots</id>
      <name>Apache Snapshots</name>
      <url>http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
      <releases>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
      </snapshots>
    </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>

...

<plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <configuration>
        <path>/</path>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>

You can run Tomcat7 by: mvn tomcat7:run

You can read more about this new version of Tomcat Maven plugin at tomcat.apache.org.

This plugin is still under development.

BTW: List Maven plugins hosted at Apache.org is available at maven.apache.org/plugins.

4 Comments

Yiannis 18. September 2012

THANK YOU!
piterT 24. December 2012

Hi,
when I try mvn clean install tomcat7:run i get an error on the clean phase: it cant delete target directory

do you know why???

here is my pom.xml

4.0.0
com.design.prueba
PruebaDesign
war
0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
PruebaDesign Maven Webapp
http://maven.apache.org

people.apache.snapshots
http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/

false

true

apache.snapshots
Apache Snapshots
http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/

false

true

junit
junit
3.8.1
test

org.apache.struts
struts2-core
2.3.4.1

PruebaDesign

org.apache.tomcat.maven
tomcat7-maven-plugin
2.0-SNAPSHOT

maven-compiler-plugin
2.3.2

1.6
1.6
piterT 24. December 2012

pffff this has unformatted my message, well I let you message error:

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1:clean (default-clean) on project PruebaDesign: Failed to clean project: Failed to delete C:\Users\peter\workspaces\ChercherEcoleWS\PruebaDesign\target\tomcat\logs\access_log.2012-12-24
georgik 24. December 2012

@piterT: You have to shutdown Tomcat if you want to clean target. It seems that you have some process which is blocking log file. This is typical issue with Windows OS.

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