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Run Maven Java Web Application in Tomcat Maven Plugin

  1. Introduction
  2. Quick create Maven Web Application Project
  3. Search Tomcat Maven Plugin version to use
  4. Configure and run Maven Project
  5. Run Maven Web Application in Jetty Maven Plugin

1. Introduction

This guide was written based on:
  • Eclipse 4.6 (NEON)

  • Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.2

The steps in this tutorial:

2. Quick create Maven Web Application Project

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This is image of project is created.
The contents of the file pom.xml was created:
Do not worry about the error message when the Project has been created. The reason is that you do not declare the Servlet library.

Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) create Maven project structure may be wrong. You need to fix.

3. Search Tomcat Maven Plugin version to use

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Next we will find a version of "Tomcat Maven Plugin" (fit or newest):

4. Configure and run Maven Project

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Configure Maven Servlet Library
<!-- Servlet Library -->
<dependency>
   <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
   <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
   <version>3.1.0</version>
   <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
Copy and paste the following code into pom.xml
<plugins>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
        <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.2</version>
    </plugin>
</plugins>
pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.o7planning</groupId>
   <artifactId>SimpleMavenWebApp</artifactId>
   <packaging>war</packaging>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>SimpleMavenWebApp Maven Webapp</name>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>junit</groupId>
           <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
           <version>3.8.1</version>
           <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>

       <!-- Servlet Library -->
       <dependency>
           <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
           <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
           <version>3.1.0</version>
           <scope>provided</scope>
       </dependency>
       
   </dependencies>
   

   <build>
       <finalName>SimpleMavenWebApp</finalName>
       <plugins>
       
           <!-- Config: Maven Tomcat Plugin -->
           <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat.maven/tomcat7-maven-plugin -->
           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
               <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.2</version>
               <!-- Config: contextPath and Port (Default - /SimpleMavenWebApp : 8080) -->
               <!--
               <configuration>
                   <path>/</path>
                   <port>8899</port>
               </configuration>
               -->  
           </plugin>
       </plugins>
   </build>
   
</project>
Configure Project to run. Right-click on the Project select "Run As / Run Configurations ...".
Create a new run configuration
Enter the information as shown below, click Apply and click Run.
  • Run SimpleMavenWebApp
  • ${workspace_loc:/SimpleMavenWebApp}
  • tomcat7:run -X
In the first run, Eclipse will download "Tomcat Maven Plugin", so you have to wait until the download is complete
Copy the link below to run on your browser
To rerun the WebApplication you will need to close the currently running application.
Run the application again

5. Run Maven Web Application in Jetty Maven Plugin

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You can see a similar guide: Run Maven Web Application in Jetty Maven Plugin, at:
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