How to use maven plugin tomcat7:run with multiple contexts (WARs)?

Question

I\'ve been using mvn tomcat7-maven-plugin:run -am -pl :foo successfully to run just a single project at a time in Tomcat like is shown here. Now I\'d like to ha

Answer 1

As it was already suggested, use <webapps> section of plugin configuration, but add additional parameter <asWebapp>true</asWebapp> for every webapp, i.e:

<webapps> 
  <webapp> 
    <groupId>com.company</groupId> 
    <artifactId>mywebapp</artifactId> 
    <version>1.0</version> 
    <type>war</type>    
    <asWebapp>true</asWebapp> 
  </webapp> 
  <webapp> 
    <groupId>com.company</groupId> 
    <artifactId>mywebapp2</artifactId> 
    <version>2.0</version> 
    <type>war</type>    
    <asWebapp>true</asWebapp> 
  </webapp>
</webapps> 

These additional webapps are deployed with ${artifactId} context path by default.

It looks like without this parameter additional webapps get silently discarded when you run something like mvn tomcat7:run (tried on stable version 2.0). Related Jira issue tells it was done for "backward compatibility".

Answer 2

Use something like

  <configuration>
    <webapps> 
      <webapp> 
        <groupId>com.company</groupId> 
        <artifactId>mywebapp</artifactId> 
        <version>1.0</version> 
        <type>war</type>    
      </webapp> 
    </webapps> 
  </configuration>