From Eclipse, how can I run my Maven project in Tomcat? - eclipse

Question

I'm on Windows XP, using Eclipse Indigo, Tomcat 6.0.33, and have the Maven plugin installed. (Using Maven 3.0.3 on my system). I have Tomcat showing up in my Eclipse servers list, but I can't figure out a one click way to deploy my WAR project to the Tomcat server. When I right click my project and select "Run" there are many Maven options (e.g. "Maven Install"), but none builds and then deploys my project to Tomcat.
Any help along these lines? Thanks, - Dave

Answer 1

see below link for details
http://mojo.codehaus.org/tomcat-maven-plugin/deployment.html
Alternatively, search for tomcat:run and you can use it directly
EDIT:
Run/Debug Configurations
Double click maven build, a new configuration will be created
put ${project_loc} for base directory
put tomcat:run for goals
give an appropriate name for yourself at the top
Apply and run/debug using your new configuration
EDIT2:
The link has been changed to below one:
http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-trunk/tomcat7-maven-plugin/
(Thanks #Lucky)

Answer 2

within Eclipse, you can run the project by doing the following:
In the servers view, create a server (right-click, new Server, Tomcat)
Add the project to the server (right-click the server, add & remove, select the project)
Start the server - the server will start & deploy the app
The trick to this is that the server does not deploy the packaged app in the tomcat webapps directory, it deploys an exploded version into a directory under the plug-ins directory of the eclipse installation.
To specifically do the maven packaging and deploy to the external tomcat istance (external to eclipse), use the tomcat-maven-plugin, as specified by fmucar

Answer 3

Run Configurations : Select Base Directory of our maven base project directory.
Give Goals as tomcat7:run to run application and tomcat7:deploy for deploy tomcat7:deploy
In maven settings.xml, give server configuration as below under <servers> tag
<servers>
<server>
<id>TomcatServer</id>
<username>admin</username>
<password>admin</password>
</server>
<servers>
In the parameters section of run configurations give parameter maven.tomcat.port and give any required port number. Ex: 7777
In the pom.xml provide tomcat plugin as below under <build> tag
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://localhost:7777/manager/html</url>
<server>TomcatServer</server>
<username>admin</username>
<password>admin</password>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>tomcat-run</id>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<port>7777</port>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Answer 4

within Eclipse, you can run the project by doing the following:
In the servers view, create a server (right-click, new Server, Tomcat) Add the project to the server (right-click the server, add & remove, select the project) Start the server - the server will start & deploy the app
The trick to this is that the server does not deploy the packaged app in the tomcat webapps directory, it deploys an exploded version into a directory under the plug-ins directory of the eclipse installation.
To specifically do the maven packaging and deploy to the external tomcat istance (external to eclipse), use the tomcat-maven-plugin, as specified by fmucar
This I do not get because I don not want to add any maven plugin, I wanted to run it in simple manner like in old plain servlet programs we used to add server in server panel of eclipse and then over project we used to do Right Click and run on server.
Here how can I do it without adding maven plugin or please explain in details why maven plugin explicitly needed why I can not run server added to eclipse. I did steps given above(last solutions) but in that case server added to my eclipse do not starts instead of that server which was downloaded during maven plugin resolution (I am talking about tomcat:run command) process gets started.
Please explain in details as short answers only confuses I am beginner for maven.

Answer 5

<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<path>/</path>
<contextReloadable>true</contextReloadable>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
As Simple as that, just add above build tag under project tag in pom.xml and run by giving tomcat:run goal command in maven run configuration in eclipse.