Maven - Deploy war in Tomcat 7 & 8

This article will explain on how to deploy a war fine in to Tomcat 7 through maven build.

Note : I have tested same settings for Tomcat 8 as well. So below settings can be apply for both versions.

• Configure tomcat7-maven-plugin in pom.xml

   <!-- Tomcat plugin -->
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
    <configuration>
     <path>/${project.build.finalName}</path>
     <update>true</update>
     <url>http:// localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
     <username>tomcat</username>
     <password>tomcatuser</password>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>

• Configure user rights in the tomcat-user.xml which is in the tomcat conf file.

   <role rolename="tomcat" />
   <role rolename="manager-gui" />
   <role rolename="manager-script" />
   <role rolename="admin-gui" />
   <user username="tomcat" password="tomcatuser"
    roles="tomcat,manager-gui,admin-gui,manager-script" />

•  Once above steps are followed, You can deploy the war by running following maven goal

mvn tomcat7:redeploy

More details of the Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin refer maven-plugin-2.2