Tomcat is not deploying my web project from Eclipse

Question

I'm developing web application. Everything was working fine till yesterday.

Something happened yesterday (no idea what exactly) and Eclipse is not deploying my application any more.

I'm using spring and maven, but it worked before, so I think there is no problem in this.

When I'm starting my application there is this in startup log:

7.9.2012 12:39:23 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_31\bin;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jre6/bin/client;C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jre6/bin;C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jre6/lib/i386;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\Program Files (x86)\CVSNT\;c:\Programs\apache-ant-1.8.1\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Teleca Shared;C:\SSD\Oracle11g\product\11.2.0\dbhome_3\bin;C:\SSD\Oracle11g\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Groovy\Groovy-1.8.6\bin;C:\Programs\TortoiseSVN-1.7.7\bin;c:\Programs\apache-ant-1.8.1\bin;c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_31\bin;c:\Programs\cygwin\bin;c:\Programs\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin;C:\SSD\Mudrc\Eclipse;;. 7.9.2012 12:39:23 org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:MudrcWeb2' did not find a matching property. 7.9.2012 12:39:23 org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9091"] 7.9.2012 12:39:23 org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"] 7.9.2012 12:39:23 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 491 ms 7.9.2012 12:39:23 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal INFO: Starting service Catalina 7.9.2012 12:39:23 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.29 7.9.2012 12:39:24 org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-9091"] 7.9.2012 12:39:24 org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"] 7.9.2012 12:39:24 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 693 ms 

While I'm using spring, there should be at least context initialization in log.

I read several similar questions here

• Tomcat 7 in Eclipse Indigo: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Resource /WEB-INF/classes not found
• Tomcat started in Eclipse but unable to connect to http://localhost:8085/
• Eclipse : Starting tomcat server from eclipse , does not start the deployed wars
• Where does Eclipse deploy web applications using WTP?
• "SetPropertiesRule" warning message when starting Tomcat from Eclipse
• Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:JSFTut' did not find a matching property

but nothing helped

I tried adding new server to Eclipse, renaming project, cleaning and still it is the same.

When I build it with maven I can deploy it to Tomcat and it works.

Answer 1

Have you check your deploy path in Server Locations? May be your tomcat deploy path changed and Eclipse is not deploying your application.

In eclipse.

1. Window -> Show View -> Servers.
2. Double click to your server.

3. In Tomcat Server's Overview.

   3.1 check your Server Path

   3.2 check your Deploy Path

Answer 2

Maybe the deploy Maven assembly in project properties is missing: