Maven Deploy To Multiple Tomcat Servers

Question

What is the most minimal example of deploying a war to multiple tomcat servers using maven that can be written?

I\'ve tried the following URLs and asked the mailing

Answer 1

With regards to using multiple profiles, the lifecycle seemed to duplicate certain steps - e.g. the number of tests doubled when using profiles activated by variables. We found that using the catalina-ant library was much more effective ;) and its more "minimal". Use "executions" element to attach the "run" goal to a lifecycle phase to streamline it, or run after package: mvn package antrun:run

You could get a bit more fancy with the ant-contrib library, and create a for loop with a list of servers, but here's a static configuration for 2 hard coded server urls.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-antrun-plugin
    1.6
    
        
            
            

            
        
    
    
        
            tomcat
            catalina-ant
            6.0.29
        
    

The specific version of catalina-ant used above was manually deployed to our distributed maven repository, it can be found in the lib directory of tomcat distribution.