How to deploy Maven based war file to Tomcat
How to deploy Maven based war file to Tomcat
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How to deploy Maven based war file to TomcatBy mkyong | April 19, 2011 | Last Updated : August 5, 2014
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Maven-Tomcat plugin to package and deploy a WAR file to Tomcat, both in Tomcat 6 and 7.
Libraries used :
Maven 3
Tomcat 6.0.37
Tomcat 7.0.53
Tomcat 7
Deploy URL = http://localhost:8080/manager/text
Command = mvn tomcat7:deploy
Tomcat 6
Deploy URL = http://localhost:8080/manager/
Command = mvn tomcat6:deploy
- Tomcat 7 Example
This example shows you how to package and deploy a WAR file on Tomcat 7.
1.1 Tomcat Authentication
Add an user with roles manager-gui and manager-script.
%TOMCAT7_PATH%/conf/tomcat-users.xml
1.2 Maven Authentication
Add above Tomcat’s user in the Maven setting file, later Maven will use this user to login Tomcat server.
%MAVEN_PATH%/conf/settings.xml
<settings …>
TomcatServer
admin
password
1.3 Tomcat7 Maven Plugin
Declares a Maven Tomcat plugin.
pom.xml
org.apache.tomcat.maven
tomcat7-maven-plugin
2.2
http://localhost:8080/manager/text
TomcatServer
How it works?
During deployment, it tells Maven to deploy the WAR file to Tomcat server via “http://localhost:8080/manager/text” , on path “/mkyongWebApp“, using “TomcatServer” (in settings.xml) username and password for authentication.
1.4 Deploy to Tomcat
Commands to manipulate WAR file on Tomcat.
mvn tomcat7:deploy
mvn tomcat7:undeploy
mvn tomcat7:redeploy
Example
mvn tomcat7:deploy
…
[INFO] Deploying war to http://localhost:8080/mkyongWebApp
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2FmkyongWebApp&update=true
Uploaded: http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=%2FmkyongWebApp&update=true (13925 KB at 35250.9 KB/sec)
[INFO] tomcatManager status code:200, ReasonPhrase:OK
[INFO] OK - Deployed application at context path /mkyongWebApp
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] Total time: 8.507 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2014-08-05T11:35:25+08:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 28M/308M
[INFO] ————————————————————————


2. Tomcat 6 Example
This example shows you how to package and deploy a WAR file on Tomcat 6. The steps are same with Tomcat 7, just the deploy url and command name are different.
2.1 Tomcat Authentication
%TOMCAT6_PATH%/conf/tomcat-users.xml
2.2 Maven Authentication
%MAVEN_PATH%/conf/settings.xml
<settings …>
TomcatServer
admin
password
2.3 Tomcat6 Maven Plugin
pom.xml
org.apache.tomcat.maven
tomcat6-maven-plugin
2.2
http://localhost:8080/manager
TomcatServer
2.4 Deploy to Tomcat
mvn tomcat6:deploy
mvn tomcat6:undeploy
mvn tomcat6:redeploy
Example
mvn tomcat6:deploy
…
[INFO] Deploying war to http://localhost:8080/mkyongWebApp
Uploading: http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy?path=%2FmkyongWebApp
Uploaded: http://localhost:8080/manager/deploy?path=%2FmkyongWebApp (13925 KB at 32995.5 KB/sec)
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[INFO] Total time: 22.652 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2014-08-05T12:18:54+08:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 30M/308M
[INFO] ————————————————————————
