mvn tomcat7:deploy not work if no restart tomcat

Question

I'm trying to deploy a war on tomcat via maven (mvn clean install tomcat7:deploy). The deployment seems to work fine, but the application only works if I restart tomcat. It is normal? I think not.

Answer 1

tomcat7:deploy only responsible to put the updated WAR file to Tomcat:

Deploy a WAR to Tomcat.

To use Tomcat hot deploy when war file changes, see answers