Thanks Olivier, I was able to use your examples and specifying the dependencies manually and got it work nicely. So I just put Liferay portal web war package into my webapps section and also enumerated all the dependencies that need to be available to Embedded tomcat and it worked! For anyone interested here it is: https://gist.github.com/gamerson/6510740
G On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote: > for 1) your jars must be in the plugin dependencies section (see jdbc > driver here > http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-trunk/run-mojo-features.html > ) > for 2) I understand you simply want to run a war (and maybe run unit > tests) so unpacking with the dependency looks to be the solution. > > HTH > > Olivier > > On 9 September 2013 13:18, Greg Amerson <gregory.amer...@liferay.com> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm trying to use the tomcat7-maven-plugin, specifically running the *mvn > > tomcat7:run* command. > > > > However, in my case I have two requirements that are different than the > > documentation provides for and I'm wondering if it is possible with the > > current tomcat7-maven-plugin. > > > > 1. need to deploy several jars to the global tomcat classpath (i.e. same > as > > copying them into <tomcat.home>/lib/ext/ folder in a standalone install). > > 2. need to deploy a war to the ROOT context but instead of packaging the > > current project from source, I just need to point to an existing WAR as a > > dependency. > > > > So in my project there will be no webapp source. I simply want to run a > > tomcat with some extra jars in /lib/ext/ directory and also deploy a war > > that is obtained via a <dependency> with war type instead of packaged > from > > source. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > > > -- > > Greg Amerson > > Liferay Developer Tools > > Liferay, Inc. www.liferay.com > > > > -- > Olivier Lamy > Ecetera: http://ecetera.com.au > http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Greg Amerson Liferay Developer Tools Liferay, Inc. www.liferay.com
