mvn copy war to webapps

Question

Is there anything I can add to pom.xml that will copy the generated war file from the target directory to my webapps directory?

Answer 1

Youn can use http://cargo.codehaus.org/Deploying+to+a+running+container and configure it accordingly.

Answer 2

You could also have a look at the jetty plugin. Just type "mvn jetty:run-war" and jetty should run your war-file.

Edit: Jetty is a light weight servlet container suitable for development and testing. It's also lightning fast to start.

Answer 3

Not ideal, but if you have a really strange app server setup, you could always use an antrun task set to execute when the packaging is run

<build>
    ....
    <plugins>
       <plugin>
          <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
          <executions>
            <execution>
              <phase>package</phase>
              <configuration>
                <tasks>
         <!-- Ant copy tasks go here -->
                </tasks>
              </configuration>
              <goals>
                <goal>run</goal>
              </goals>
            </execution>
          </executions>
        </plugin>
     </plugins>
  </build>

Answer 4

Alternatively, you could have tomcat look in your target directory and deploy directly from there.

In your context.xml or server.xml's Context element:

<Context path="" docBase="/path/to/target/exploded">
...
</Context>

Then you can use the war:exploded goal to create your exploded war.

Answer 5

I used the Maven WAR Plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/usage.html

Answer 6

You can also do this with the dependency plugin