deploy spring war to tomcat.

omcat7 deployment can be automated from Maven using tomcat7-maven-plugin, http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.0-SNAPSHOT/tomcat7-maven-plugin/plugin-info.html.  To enable Tomcat deployment, do the following,

• Configure Tomcat7
• Add plugin to pom.xml 
• Invoke tomcat7:deploy
• Troubleshooting

Configure Tomcat7

Edit conf/tomcat-users.xml, and append the following,

<rolerolename="manager"/>

<rolerolename="manager-gui"/>

<rolerolename="admin"/>

<userusername="admin"password="admin"roles="admin,manager,manager-gui"/>

Add plugin to pom.xml 

<pluginRepositories>

 

....

    <pluginRepository>

        <id>apache.snapshots</id>

        <name>Apache Snapshots</name>

        <url>http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository</url>

        <releases>

            <enabled>false</enabled>

        </releases>

        <snapshots>

            <enabled>true</enabled>

        </snapshots>

    </pluginRepository>

 

....

</pluginRepositories>

 

 

<build>

<plugins>

....

<plugin>

    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>

    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>

    <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <configuration>

        <username>admin</username>

        <password>admin</password>

        <update>true</update>

    </configuration>

</plugin>

 

....

</plugins>

</build>

Invoke tomcat7:deploy

Add a Run As profile for your Maven build with the following,

clean packagetomcat7:deploy

Troubleshooting

403 forbidden error: make sure you use tomcat7 not tomcat  (some default value such as <url> has changed in Tomcat 7)