Hi, The Apache Tomcat is pleased to announce the release of the 2.1 version. This plugin can used to run your war project inside an embeded Apache Tomcat and to deploy your project to a running Apache Tomcat instance.
Documentation available: http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.1/index.html Release Notes - Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin - Version 2.1 ** Bug * [MTOMCAT-61] - maven tomcat:run ignores the useSeperateTomcatClassloaded when using serverXml property * [MTOMCAT-119] - tomcat7:run-war fails because it expects META-INF\context.xml * [MTOMCAT-128] - The plugin ignores and/or parses web.xml incorrectally when using tomcatWebXml option * [MTOMCAT-173] - Direct dependencies are not added to classpath * [MTOMCAT-175] - warDirectory property has wrong standard value in release version 2.0 * [MTOMCAT-179] - Null pointer dereference in RunMojo * [MTOMCAT-180] - Allow hostName and alias to be configured for tomcat6:run etc * [MTOMCAT-182] - Typo in Tomcat6 AbstractRunWarMojo MOJO * [MTOMCAT-185] - change phase for tomcat6/7:run to process-classes * [MTOMCAT-186] - Closing executable JAR does not call ServletContextListener.contextDestroyed() * [MTOMCAT-194] - Odd error message in switching from Codehaus to Maven Tomcat6 plugin * [MTOMCAT-197] - tomcat7:undeploy goal not ignoring non-war projects * [MTOMCAT-198] - Fix base classes for redeploy and redeploy-only goals * [MTOMCAT-206] - Runtime dependencies within multi module projects are not loaded. ** Improvement * [MTOMCAT-99] - Make redeploy goal consistent with deploy goals * [MTOMCAT-188] - Allow for the creation of a war that is both executable and deployable * [MTOMCAT-190] - Client Certificate settings for connector * [MTOMCAT-191] - Return the "redeploy" goal to the Maven plugin * [MTOMCAT-192] - Website text cleanup * [MTOMCAT-199] - Text cleanup of goal definitions * [MTOMCAT-200] - Tomcat7:redeploy * [MTOMCAT-208] - JaCoCo instrumentation errors when running StandaloneWarMojo ** New Feature * [MTOMCAT-163] - No undeploy goal ** Question * [MTOMCAT-187] - Scan resources executing run goal Have Fun, -- The Apache Tomcat Team.
