Maven build: Tomcat server doesn't start

Question

I am new to Maven and trying to setup a web project using Maven. I have setup the project in Eclipse and I am using Tomcat 7.0.53. In run configuration for Maven build and I have set tomcat:run in Goals.
When I run this configuration, following log is seen in the Eclipse console:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Chat sample using the Spring MVC Servlet-based async support 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] >>> tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:run (default-cli) > compile @ spring-mvc-chat >>>
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @ spring-mvc-chat ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 1 resource
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ spring-mvc-chat ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] 
[INFO] <<< tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:run (default-cli) < compile @ spring-mvc-chat <<<
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:run (default-cli) @ spring-mvc-chat ---
[INFO] Running war on http://localhost:8080/spring-mvc-chat
[INFO] Using existing Tomcat server configuration at D:\Workspace\spring-mvc-chat-master\target\tomcat
Jul 21, 2014 11:26:44 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded start
INFO: Starting tomcat server
Jul 21, 2014 11:26:45 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.29
Jul 21, 2014 11:26:45 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jul 21, 2014 11:26:45 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080

Nothing happens after this. There is no info of server startup and hence the project can't run at all. Is any step is being missed here? Or this IS the correct behaviour?

Answer 1

For Tomcat 7 use mvn tomcat7:run Ref: Maven Tomcat 7