maven-tomcat-plugin

OK so I've been reading several of the other stack questions and trying to piece this together without much luck. Basically my approach is that I currently have one project with multiple sub-projects. I basically have the following: root |----backend |----|----src |----|----|----main |----|----|----|----java (individual java files not shown) |----|----|----|----resources |----|----|----|----|----META-INF |----|----|----|----|----|----applicationContext.xml |----|----|----|----webapp |----|----|----|----|----WEB-INF |----|----|----|----|----|----web_servicesConfig.xml |----|----|----|----|----|

I tried to deploy my app to Tomcat using Maven and I've found this sample. That's fragment of my pom.xml: <!-- Maven Tomcat Plugin --> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <url>http://127.0.0.1:8080/</url> <server>TomcatServer</server> </configuration> </plugin> <!-- Maven compiler plugin --> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> </configuration> </plugin> And when I run tomcat:deploy I get this error: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Connection refused

I'm using tomcat7-maven-plugin 2.2 to run a webapp from command line (I'm on Windows 8.1, Java 1.7.0_51 and Maven 3.2.1). This is the configuration (pretty straightforward, I guess): <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId> <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2</version> <configuration> <address>localhost</address> <port>8080</port> <path>/</path> <uriEncoding>UTF-8</uriEncoding> </configuration> </plugin> I run Maven with mvn tomcat7:run and it starts correctly, the server starts up, the webapp loads, and I can interact with it. The command prompt in which I

I built a java configured Spring MVC application without any XML. I can deploy and start the application on my laptop without any problems. But as soon as I try to deploy my application on my testserver (tomcat 7), I receive following message: HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource (/[application context]/) is not available. I build my applications using the Eclipse Maven plugin. Is it possible to deploy the application without the web.xml and if not, which is the basic web.xml I really need? Maven WAR Plugin: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin<