Apache tomcat server startup increase over 30000 ms in eclipse Kepler - eclipse

when i run my JSP page on apache tomcat 7 in my eclipse, server output shows up in 30000ms or more some times it never starts up, at first output got in lessthan 700ms,
Any help or suggession on this problem...
sample output...
NFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.12
Mar 18, 2014 10:42:39 PM org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGenerator createSecureRandom
INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [156] milliseconds.
Mar 18, 2014 10:42:58 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Mar 18, 2014 10:42:58 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Mar 18, 2014 10:42:58 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 30553 ms

Consider the following 2 suggestions:
1)As I commented above check if more then one application is running on the same server.This could be the primary reason.May be 3 or 4 applications might be running once you start your tomcat service.
2)May be some library that you are using for your application is creating some problem,for example the library might be initializing some file storage or may be something else.For this you will have to debug and check your stacktraces.

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Tomcat persistence manager using MongoDB as a Persistence store leads problems

I used Tomcat Persistence manager with MongoDB as a persistence store.I am getting lot of problems related to this.
Tomcat not going to shutdown properly. I need to kill it later.
It showing log like this.
Tomcat Log::: Jun 28, 2016 6:36:23 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer await
INFO: A valid shutdown command was received via the shutdown port.Stopping the Server instance.
Jun 28, 2016 6:36:23 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol pause
INFO: Pausing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9082"]
Jun 28, 2016 6:36:23 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol pause
INFO: Pausing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Jun 28, 2016 6:36:23 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService stopInternal
INFO: Stopping service Catalina
Jun 28, 2016 6:36:23 AM com.mongodb.diagnostics.logging.JULLogger log
INFO: Closed connection [connectionId{localValue:24, serverValue:619}] to <host ip>:<port> because the underlying connection was closed.
After that no response.Then I manually killed that process.
MongoDB collection creating documents more than I expected(approxiamately 100 times). I took reference from these pages.
Tomcat Persistence manager
Mongo Store
Can Any One help regarding these issues?

Simple Tomcat Servlet not loaded in Eclipse

I've been following the Servlet and JSP development with Eclipse WTP from vogella.com. I've installed Tomcat 7, copy-pasted the code (a simple Data Access Object and a simple HpptServlet), and started the server from eclipse.
When I open http://localhost:8080/de.vogella.wtp.filecounter/FileCounter in the web, the expected result is:
But I got a 404 error:
And this error log in the console:
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /Users/adamatan/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:de.vogella.wtp.filecounter' did not find a matching property.
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 525 ms
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.42
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext resourcesStart
SEVERE: Error starting static Resources
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base /Users/adamatan/Personal/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/de.vogella.wtp.filecounter does not exist or is not a readable directory
at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:138)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.resourcesStart(StandardContext.java:5055)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5235)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error in resourceStart()
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error getConfigured
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/de.vogella.wtp.filecounter] startup failed due to previous errors
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Sep 15, 2013 7:27:09 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 255 ms
Relevant information:
Tomcat runs OK from the command line (catalina run).
There is only one instance of Tomcat running at the same time.
I could not get any other Tomcat servlet to run from Eclipse.
Any idea why isn't tomcat running my simple Servlet?
Update: I'm using OSX
I suspect you are running tomcat using an own user - it's a common practice in unix systems - and that that user does not have read privilege to your home directory /Users/adamatan.
Then you could try to add the tomcat user to you the group your user belongs to.
Better yet try to change the server location as described in this so question to a location where eclipse has write access and the tomcat user has read access.
EDIT
Actually its a setting in the Dynamic Web Project wizard, If you choose Dynamic web module version 3.0 (which is default) or higher on the first page then on the last page the checkbox for Generate web.xml deployment descriptor is disabled by default. If you choose 2.5 or lower it is then enabled by default. It has nothing to do with which tomcat you are actually using. If you want to use annotations though, then you have to have tomcat 7 with servlet specs 3.0
It was a Tomcat 6 tutorial, and I was using Tomcat 7.
Eclipse did not create a web.xml file, because it was expecting annotations in the Java code. The tutorial code did not contain any annotations, so the server started without servlets.

cannot start Tomcat 7 server - java.net.BindException: Address already in use

Hi i am not able to start tomcat 7 server from eclipse.
When i give start from eclipse i get the following error log.
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:27 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:/Program Files/Java/jre7/bin/client;C:/Program Files/Java/jre7/bin;C:/Program Files/Java/jre7/lib/i386;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Users\Jayant\Desktop\data\adt-bundle-windows-x86\eclipse;;.
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1165 ms
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.12
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 507 ms
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer await
SEVERE: StandardServer.await: create[localhost:8005]:
java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.bind0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source)
at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.await(StandardServer.java:422)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.await(Catalina.java:707)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:653)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:303)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:431)
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:28 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler pause
INFO: Pausing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:29 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler pause
INFO: Pausing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:30 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService stopInternal
INFO: Stopping service Catalina
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:30 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler stop
INFO: Stopping ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:10:30 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler stop
INFO: Stopping ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Now i am getting the following error.
Jan 11, 2013 10:18:59 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:/Program Files/Java/jre7/bin/client;C:/Program Files/Java/jre7/bin;C:/Program Files/Java/jre7/lib/i386;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Users\Jayant\Desktop\data\adt-bundle-windows-x86\eclipse;;.
Jan 11, 2013 10:19:00 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:19:00 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:19:00 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 872 ms
Jan 11, 2013 10:19:00 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Jan 11, 2013 10:19:00 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.12
Jan 11, 2013 10:19:00 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:19:00 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Jan 11, 2013 10:19:00 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 535 ms
Jan 11, 2013 10:20:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer await
WARNING: StandardServer.await: Invalid command 'GET / HTTP/1.1' received
Jan 11, 2013 10:20:19 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer await
WARNING: StandardServer.await: Invalid command '' received
Go to server.xml file and change
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
to
<Server port="8006" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
The admin port is for receiving admin commands,and the HTTP port is for receiving HTTP requests. You must use different ports. What happened is: the HTTP connector could not start, because the server already opened that port. Your browser/client/whatever sent the request to the admin port , the server does not understand HTTP and logs this error.
Try Reinstalling Tomcat to another port.
In Windows 10 port 8005 is already reserved (for something). Change to for example 8089 (or any free port) in tomcat/conf/server.xml
use:
pkill -f tomcat
to get rid of any existing or un-responsive tomcat instances or processes.
start tomcat.
I was having this problem (port 8005 already being used) and the root cause was due to an existing tomcat process already running on my machine. So, what I needed to do was basically kill the existing process and start up tomcat again.
The common mistake is to use the same Shutdown and Connector port in your server.xml configuration file.
These ports should be different and here is the right example:
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Connector port="8983" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
By default Tomcat listens on port 8005 for SHUTDOWN command and it should be always different to Connector port.
If your port is still already in use, try sudo lsof -i:8005 for finding why.
If you are using linux system, then type ps -ef|grep tomcat on terminal. Then find the process id(PID). then type kill -9 on the terminal. Now , start the tomcat server.
2 ways to solve this issue:
1> Go the tomcat server installation directory and open the server.xml file, check if the
Connector and server ports are different. If not make them different ports and then check if nothing is run on these ports
2> Open command prompt from start and type netstat -ano | findstr 8010 to check if the port are being used. if they are used then you get the
TCP 0.0.0.0:8005 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4
TCP [::]:8005 [::]:0 LISTENING 4
then
a> kill the process using the process id (4 in my case) from the task manager
If they are not being used then you see nothing in cmd
If you have multiple apps, check if any of the other apps use the same server port defined in the server.xml file. This was the case for me.
For me (as I was using tomcat server on VS Code).
Tomcat provides a interface called "configure tomcat", there are a options below service status like start, stop etc. The reason I think your terminal showing error is due to internally tomcat is already using that port so you can stop the port from there and start your tomcat server from your IDE terminal.
For detail description and If you OS is windows, search Services and inside you can see the option 'Apache Tomcat'
for people using IntelliJ
Goto Run --> Edit configurations
In the configuration that exists for Tomcat server, change the Admin port
What you can do is rather then killing process you can goto tomcat directory/conf/server.xml, Here you can change shutdown port(8005) to some other port. Also change default port (8080) and other to Different one. So you can run several instance of your Tomcat on single Machine. Restart Your Server (if still issue persists) Recreate it in Eclipse.

Eclipse: Maven -> Update Project leads to Eclipse -> Tomcat 7 starting issue

I have a Maven project that I debug with Tomcat 7 within Eclipse.
The problem is, when I make a minimal change in the pom.xml file, e.g. change the version of a Maven plugin or adding a configuration property, the server does not start properly anymore. It really does not matter what I change.
When I start the server with "Debug As", Apache Click and Shiro don't start anymore and accessing localhost leads to a 404 message by Tomcat.
The funny thing is, the problem persists even when I undo the change. The only thing that helps is a GIT -> Replace With command of the whole project.
Edit: I found out that even if I don't change anything in the pom.xml and just run Maven -> Update Project I have the issue.
Here is the log file before the change when everything works fine:
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:10 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\jre\bin;C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0/bin/../jre/bin/client;C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0/bin/../jre/bin;C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0/bin/../jre/lib/i386;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin;C:\Program Files\Eclipse JEE Indigo;;.
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:12 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:testproject' did not find a matching property.
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:12 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:12 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:12 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 2201 ms
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:12 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:12 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.12
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:13 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJarFile
INFO: validateJarFile(D:\Data\Programming\Eclipse Workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\testproject\WEB-INF\lib\servlet-api-1.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:13 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJarFile
INFO: validateJarFile(D:\Data\Programming\Eclipse Workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\testproject\WEB-INF\lib\servlet-api.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Shiro environment
[Click] [info ] *** Initializing Click 2.3.0 in development mode ***
[Click] [info ] initialized LogService: org.apache.click.service.ConsoleLogService
[Click] [info ] found jar: file:/D:/Data/Programming/Eclipse%20Workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/testproject/WEB-INF/lib/click-nodeps-2.3.0.jar
[Click] [info ] Click 2.3.0 initialized in development mode
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:14 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:14 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Nov 15, 2012 10:28:14 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 2076 ms
[Click] [info ] handleRequest: /index.htm - 57 ms
And this is the log after a minimal change to the pom file:
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:23 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\jre\bin;C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0/bin/../jre/bin/client;C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0/bin/../jre/bin;C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0/bin/../jre/lib/i386;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.0.4\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin;C:\Program Files\Eclipse JEE Indigo;;.
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:24 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:testproject' did not find a matching property.
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:24 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:24 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:24 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 570 ms
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.12
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:39 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:39 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Nov 15, 2012 10:25:39 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 14905 ms
Can anybody explain me what is happening here? I'm thankful for any tipps!
I'm using Tomcat6 with Maven and I have a similar problem at Eclipse.
Sometimes looks like Tomcat stucks and stay completely blind with my configured project.
When this thing happens I try this steps, always testing if one of then already resolved my problem.
Maven -> Project update
F5 over the project (ussualy works at this point)
Clean the Tomcat
Clean the project (Project > Clean)
Removes the project (Right button over the server > Add and Remove), save and add it again.
How it's your server.xml? Is it your project a web application?
Unfortunately I don't know why this kind of problem occur, but it looks like much more a problem with the Tomcat's cache then with Maven at all.
Anyway, it's a problem that takes me a lot of time each day.

How do I run a web application using SpringSource Toolsuite?

I'd like to run my Spring application using STS, but I have no idea how to do that. I see the tc server instance, and I can run it, but this does not start my application. I've tried dragging my project workspace onto it, but that hasn't worked either. I've right-clicked and read/checked out all of the options on the context-sensitive menu, but I don't see anything to run my project inside tc server. Does anyone know how?
EDIT:
This is what I get when running the project. I see nothing about my project's war at all. It is included as a "web module" when I check out the tc server settings though. And it does have a web.xml and all of that other good stuff. The project works fine in maven's tomcat goal and inside IDEA. I am just having problems getting it to run in eclipse.
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:51 PM com.springsource.tcserver.security.PropertyDecoder <init>
INFO: tc Runtime property decoder using memory-based key
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:51 PM com.springsource.tcserver.security.PropertyDecoder <init>
INFO: tcServer Runtime property decoder has been initialized in 206 ms
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM com.springsource.tcserver.serviceability.rmi.JmxSocketListener init
INFO: Started up JMX registry on 127.0.0.1:6969 in 65 ms
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 741 ms
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: VMware vFabric tc Runtime 2.6.3.RELEASE/7.0.23.A.RELEASE
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor C:\Users\me\Documents\workspace-sts-2.9.0.RELEASE\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\conf\Catalina\localhost\trainingdividend.xml
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.SetContextPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:trainingdividend' did not find a matching property.
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive C:\Users\me\Documents\workspace-sts-2.9.0.RELEASE\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\webapps\insight.war
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:52 PM com.springsource.insight.collection.tcserver.ltw.TomcatWeavingInsightClassLoader start
INFO: Context [localhost|insight] will not be woven
Mar 30, 2012 3:35:53 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
Mar 30, 2012 3:36:03 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet'
Mar 30, 2012 3:36:05 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Mar 30, 2012 3:36:05 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 13468 ms
If you are missing the Run As > Run on Server option, then chances are your project does not have the Dynamic Web Module facet.
I was running into 404 errors in my J2ee project, created using Dynamic WebModules. Initially I thought it was a context problem, as the url that STS was attempting to run was quite wrong. However the project the context was correct. But needed to get rid of the errors shown in the markers tab (which may not stop attempts to run as Server) before I made any progress.
After resolving obvious code, jar,path errors, I then check if I can export a war file correctly. If not, it is usually an issue in the DEPLOYMENT ASSEMBLY portion of the projects properties (at least in my Java project). Specifying the class files and jars from required projects is needed to get the correct war file structure. Once accomplished, bye bye 404s