Deploy Maven project with Spring+Hibernate to Tomcat

Question

I have created a Spring 3 + Hibernate project using Maven in Eclipse. How can I deploy my project to a Tomcat server using Maven.

Help is highly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you add the Tomcat Maven plugin, all you have to do is

mvn tomcat:deploy

(after adding the server to your Maven configuration)

Answer 2

Adding to what @Sean Patrick Floyd and @Michael Borgwardt had already suggested, If you are using Eclipse, you can also follow this to generate your .war file.

I assume the project is Maven enabled, Else:

• Right click on your project -> Select Maven -> Select Enable Dependency Management.

To generate the .war:

• Right click on your project -> Select Run As -> Select Maven Package.

This will generate a war file into target directory located in your project.

To deploy to Tomcat:

• Copy the generated war file to your webapps directory in Tomcat.