Tomcat 7 - Maven Plugin?

Question

I just wanted to double-check, has anyone found or is working on a Tomcat 7 plugin? If not, is anyone interested in helping me get it up and running?

I want another quick alternative to Glassfish, JBoss AS 6.0 is a bit heavy still for quick mockups.

Walter

Answer 1

There is t7mp - a Tomcat 7 Maven Plugin - on Google code.

Cargo (and its Cargo Maven2 Plugin) also has support for Tomcat 7 (this was CARGO-790).

Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.0-beta-1 supports Tomcat 7.

Answer 2

It work for me as the following.

My setting.xml

 <server>  
   <id>local_tomcat</id>  
   <username>ray</username>  
   <password>password</password>  
 </server>  

My plugin configuration

 <plugin>
  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
  <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
     <server>local_tomcat</server>  
     <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>  
  </configuration>
 </plugin>

My tomcat-users.xml

 <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
    <role rolename="manager-script"/>
  <user password="password" roles="manager-gui, manager-script" username="ray"/>

Answer 3

i use the official Tomcat7 Maven Plugin from Apache as follows:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <path>/${project.artifactId}</path>
                    <port>8080</port>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

and to run it: mvn tomcat7:run

Answer 4

Using maven cargo your can coufigure your project that way :

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
    <artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.6</version>
    <configuration>
        <container>
            <containerId>tomcat7x</containerId>
            <type>installed</type>
            <home>${catalina.home}</home>
        </container>
        <configuration>
            <type>existing</type>
            <home>${catalina.home}</home>
        </configuration>
        <deployer>
            <type>installed</type>
            <deployables>
                <deployable>
                    <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
                    <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
                    <type>war</type>
                </deployable>
            </deployables>
        </deployer>
    </configuration>
</plugin>       

don't forget to configure your catalina.home property

The you can deploy it using:

mvn cargo:deploy

Answer 5

There is the Tomcat Maven Plugin 7 plugin developed by the Apache Tomcat team.

Currently you have to checkout the sources and install it to your local repository. After that you can use it in the plugin section of your pom:

      <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
          <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>start-tomcat</id>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                  <path>/</path>
                  <serverXml>src/main/tomcatconf/server.xml</serverXml>
                </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

Answer 6

After I had this error for three days in a row, here's my solution:

The user you are using to connect needs at least the role manager-script. In your /conf/tomcat-users.xml

<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<user username="test" password="test" roles="manager-script"/>

In your pom.xml, include the following plugin

    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.0</version>
      <configuration>
        <url>http://server.url:8080/manager/text</url>
        <path>/YourApp</path>
        <username>test</username>
        <password>test</password>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>

Contrary to what I found in the internet you DON'T need to edit your maven setting.xml. The tomcat7-maven-plugin can be configured directly in the configuration-tag

A word to the url-tag: I tested the suffix

• /manager
• /manager/html
• /manager/text

of which only /manager/text worked

My versions:

• Tomcat: 7.0.33
• Maven: 3.0.4
• tomcat7-maven-plugin: 2.0
• Java: 1.7.0_07

Answer 7

I'm using tomcat7-maven-plugin for my embedded tomcat instance. Here is how I have configured it. Since my app requires jaas authentication I can also provide that in the setting itself.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
    <!-- http port -->
        <port>8080</port>
        <path>/gcs-explorers</path>
        <contextFile>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/META-INF/context.xml</contextFile>
        <addWarDependenciesInClassloader>true</addWarDependenciesInClassloader>
        <systemProperties>
            <java.security.auth.login.config>${basedir}/conf/jaas.config</java.security.auth.login.config>
        </systemProperties>
        <url>http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/html</url>
        <username>admin</username>
        <password>admin</password>
        <addContextWarDependencies>true</addContextWarDependencies>
        <addWarDependenciesInClassloader>true</addWarDependenciesInClassloader>
        <configurationDir>${basedir}</configurationDir>
    </configuration>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
            <artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.0</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.company.package.jaas</groupId>
            <artifactId>gcs-jaas</artifactId>
            <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.company.gcs</groupId>
            <artifactId>package-file-share</artifactId>
            <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
            <type>war</type>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
            <artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
            <version>11.2.0.3</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</plugin>

Answer 8

Actually, the standard plugin works for me . I just had to create the role manager-script in tomcat users and change the url parameter to http://localhost:8080/manager/html in order to make it work :

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/html</url>
        <server>local</server>
        <path>/${project.artifactId}</path>
        <update>true</update>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 9

For Tomcat 7,

Step 1: Modules tab of server add

Document base: <PATH>\Apache-Tomcat-7.0.0\webapps\manager
Path: /manager

Step 2: Update POM to:

<plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
          <update>true</update>
                <warFile>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.war</warFile>
                <path>/${project.artifactId}</path>
                <username>tomcat_user</username>
                <password>tomcat_password</password>
        </configuration>
</plugin>