gradle: copy war to tomcat directory

Question

I\'m trying to write a Gradle task which copies generated war files to my local tomcat instance:

This isn\'t working and I\'m not sure how to debug it:

Answer 1

The WAR task is aware of the artifacts it generates.

task deployToTomcat(type: Copy) {
    from war.archivePath
    into "${tomcatHome}/webapps"
}

Answer 2

I accomplished this with:

task deploy (dependsOn: war){
    copy {
        from "build/libs"
        into "C:/dev/jetty-distribution-9.1.4.v20140401/webapps"
        include "*.war"
    }
}

running it like this:

gradle deploy

Answer 3

Alternatively, you might be able to leverage the gradle-tomcat-plugin