How to deploy a WAR onto an existing Tomcat 6 instance using Cargo?

Question

I installed Tomcat using the Windows installer ages ago and it runs fine as a service on my development laptop. Now I'm mavenising my project and would like to use Cargo (or something similar) to deploy updated WARs onto the local Tomcat.

I can't find any fully worked examples of a POM file containing the right XML to do this and am struggling with the partial examples on the Cargo site.

Does anyone have a POM they can post or know of an example in the wild they can link to?

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FWIW the error I get is this - though I've tried many different combinations of parameters:

Cannot create configuration. There's no registered configuration for the parameters (container [id = [tomcat6x], type = [local]], configuration type [existing]). Actually there are no valid types registered for this configuration. Maybe you've made a mistake spelling it?

I'm not even sure I know exactly what the error means by a "type" in the first place!

Answer 1

Is there a reason to use just cargo?

You can try the maven tomcat plugin in order to deploy your wars to tomcat. See the instructions about configuration and deployment.