Deployment of war file on Tomcat

Question

Is there a way to deploy a given war file on Tomcat server? I want to do this without using the web interface.

Answer 1

We never use the web interface, don't like it. The wars are dropped in the webapps and server.xml edited as necessary. You need to bounce it if you edit the server.xml, but the war file should be picked up automagically. We generally delete the directory expanded from the war first so there is no confusion from where the components came.