How to add a Spring project to Tomcat configuration using Eclipse IDE, so that Tomcat will load the index page from web.xml
Add a plugin configuration to your pom.xml
<build>
...
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://www.url.org:1234/manager/text</url>
<!-- for ex: url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url -->
<path>/myWebApp</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
...
</build>
Or via Terminal / cmd:
mvn tomcat7:run / mvn tomcat7:deploy / mvn tomcat7:undeploy / mvn tomcat7:undeploy
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