Maven Web Project – Deploy using embedded tomcat server

Posted on By sastrija

Maven provides support for running web applications in embedded tomcat server.

Use the following steps to configure local tomcat server and run it using maven command:

  1. Add maven dependency for tomcat embedded plugin to web project 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
  xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  ...
  <dependencies> ... </dependencies>
  <build>
    <finalName>sampleproject-web</finalName>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
        <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <port>8080</port>
          <path>/</path>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

2. Use following maven command to run the application in embedded tomcat server

mvn tomcat7:run
tomcat7:run -Dstarttomcat -Dtomcat.httpPort=9080
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