maven tomcat7:shutdown

Question

I start my application using mvn tomcat7:run and its working but when I use mvn tomcat7:shutdown to stop it its showing build success but the embedded tomcat is not shutting down I get this result

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[WARNING]
[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for
com.xxx.yy.ci:ci:war:1.0.0
[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.(groupId:artifactId)' must be unique but found d
uplicate declaration of plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin
@ line 95, column 12
[WARNING]
[WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten t
he stability of your build.
[WARNING]
[WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support buildin
g such malformed projects.
[WARNING]
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building CI Web Application 1.0.0
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.0:shutdown (default-cli) @ ci ---
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 6.391s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Apr 10 14:32:04 IST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

mvn tomcat7:run need to use ctrl+c to shutdown as it's attached to the current maven run. So you don't need to use shutdown goal. Maybe I miss something ?