deploying a versioned WAR file to tomcat

Question

I was wondering what would be the best practice to deploy a maven packaged WAR file to tomcat. Using maven release plugin I get a versioned war file for my project eg: myservice-1.0.0.war

I would like to deploy it to tomcat so that I can access it as follows eg: http://localhost:8080/myservice

By default tomcat explodes the war file as a directory with a name myservice-1.0.0 under CATALINA_HOME/webapps. But I want to to explode the war as a directory with a name myservice for the reasons mentioned above.

I know I can simply rename myservice-1.0.0.war >> myservice.war and then deploy it in Tomcat.

I wanted to find out what others do?

Answer 1

I would do it by mentioning myservice as artifactId and final name and using maven cargo plugin to deploy to tomcat. http://cargo.codehaus.org/Maven2+Plugin+Tips

Answer 2

You can package file /META-INF/context.xml with content like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Context>
<Context path="myapp">
</Context>

See documentation at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html