Tomcat not booting up Gradle Webapp - eclipse

Question

I have a Gradle webapp having plugin war and jetty defined in build.gradle, as follows:
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'war'
apply plugin: 'jetty'
group = 'com.company'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8
version = '1.0'
war.baseName = 'deploy'
repositories {
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
maven { url "http://repository.pentaho.org/artifactory/repo/" }
}
dependencies {
..
}
When I perform a gradle build with jettyRunWar, as follows:
$ ./gradlew jettyRunWar
It build the application and deploy it to Jetty as expected.
Now I want to deploy the same application to Tomcat7 as well, to do the same, I ran the gradle war task as follows:
$ ./gradlew war
after running the task, I can see the deploy-1.0.war inside /Users/ArpitAggarwal/deploy/build/libs/ and when I tried to deploy it to Tomcat7, it's not picked up by Tomcat.
My question is - Do I need to apply any additional plugin to make the application deployable to Tomcat7?
Thanks.

Answer 1

war plug-in only creates a war, it doesn't deploy generated war to tomcat by itself.
You can create a task to deploy war to tomcat.
task deployToTomcat(type: Copy) {
from war.archivePath
into "${tomcatHome}/webapps"
}
You can also use gradle-tomcat-plugin.

Answer 2

The problem is contextRoot of .war file. Gradle generates the contextRoot of .war file picking the war.baseName and version, so the contextRoot is changed to deploy-1.0 and the application is accessible at:
localhost:8080/deploy-1.0
Then I removed the version field from build.gradle which makes Gradle generate .war with contextRoot as deploy and application accessibility at:
localhost:8080/deploy/