Executable WAR example via Tomcat Maven Plugin

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

  <!-- Your stuff here... -->
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
				<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>2.1</version>
				<executions>
					<execution>
						<id>tomcat-run</id>
						<goals>
							<goal>exec-war-only</goal>
						</goals>
						<phase>package</phase>
						<configuration>
							<path>/</path>
							<finalName>exec-${project.build.finalName}.jar</finalName>
							
							<!-- optional only if you want to use a preconfigured server.xml file -->
							<!-- <serverXml>src/main/conf/server.xml</serverXml> -->
							
							<!-- War dependencies -->
							<!-- 
							<warRunDependencies>
								<warRunDependency>
									<dependency>
										<groupId>a groupId</groupId>
										<artifactId>and artifactId</artifactId>
										<version>version</version>
										<type>war</type>
									</dependency>
									<contextPath>/</contextPath>
								</warRunDependency>
							</warRunDependencies> 
							-->
							
							<!-- naming is disabled by default so use true to enable it -->
							<enableNaming>true</enableNaming>
							
							<!-- extra dependencies to add jdbc driver, mail jars, etc. -->
							<!-- <extraDependencies>
								<extraDependency>
									<groupId>org.apache.derby</groupId>
									<artifactId>derby</artifactId>
									<version>10.1.3.1</version>
								</extraDependency>
								<extraDependency>
									<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
									<artifactId>mail</artifactId>
									<version>1.4</version>
								</extraDependency>
							</extraDependencies> -->
						</configuration>
					</execution>
				</executions>
			</plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>