Using the gradle tomcat plugin

Question

I am trying to fiddle with the gradle-tomcat-plugin and I am having some issues with some of the preliminaries. Assuming that my WAR is present in one of my folders, what do I need to do in order to run the war in an embedded tomcat using gradles tomcat plugin? The readme mentions the tomcatRunWar but I am a little lost as to how to use it in my gradle file

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

if you have set up everything right

go to your root directory (your build.gradle file should lie there), then execute

gradle tasks

and you should see tomcats different tasks

• tomcatRun: Starts a Tomcat instance and deploys the exploded web application to it.
• tomcatRunWar: Starts a Tomcat instance and deploys the WAR to it.
• tomcatStop: Stops the Tomcat instance.
• tomcatJasper: Runs the JSP compiler (Jasper) and turns JSP pages into Java source using.

and then you just run it

gradle tomcatRunWar

myself I prefer jetty plugin