通过maven的tomcat插件来启动tomcat7(默认是tomcat6)

原文：http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7801155/how-to-run-tomcat-7-using-maven-2-tomcat-plugin

 

This works for me: http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.1/

With this plugin config

<build>
	<plugins>
		<plugin>
			<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
			<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
			<version>2.1</version>
		</plugin>
	</plugins>
</build>

 

 

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.