$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-webapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
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[INFO] >>> maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom >>>
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[INFO] <<< maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom <<<
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[INFO] --- maven-archetype-plugin:2.2:generate (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Generating project in Interactive mode
[INFO] Using property: groupId = com.mycompany.app
[INFO] Using property: artifactId = my-webapp
Define value for property 'version': 1.0-SNAPSHOT: :
[INFO] Using property: package = com.mycompany.app
Confirm properties configuration:
groupId: com.mycompany.app
artifactId: my-webapp
version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
package: com.mycompany.app
Y: :
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[INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Old (1.x) Archetype: maven-archetype-webapp:1.0
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[INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.mycompany.app
[INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: com.mycompany.app
[INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.mycompany.app
[INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: my-webapp
[INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: /Users/jesper/dev/tmp
[INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] project created from Old (1.x) Archetype in dir: /Users/jesper/dev/tmp/my-webapp
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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 8.837s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jan 31 07:44:27 PST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 7M/81M
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$ cd my-webapp/
Add plugin repository to pom.xml:
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>apache.snapshots</id>
<name>Apache Snapshots</name>
<url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
Add plugin to pom.xml:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>tomcat-run</id>
<goals>
<goal>exec-war-only</goal>
</goals>
<phase>package</phase>
<configuration>
<path>/</path>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
Now pom.xml looks like this:
$ cat pom.xml
<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
<artifactId>my-webapp</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>my-webapp Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>apache.snapshots</id>
<name>Apache Snapshots</name>
<url>https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>my-webapp</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>tomcat-run</id>
<goals>
<goal>exec-war-only</goal>
</goals>
<phase>package</phase>
<configuration>
<path>/</path>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Build:
$ mvn package
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building my-webapp Maven Webapp 1.0-SNAPSHOT
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[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.4.3:resources (default-resources) @ my-webapp ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (MacRoman actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ my-webapp ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.4.3:testResources (default-testResources) @ my-webapp ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (MacRoman actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /Users/jesper/dev/tmp/my-webapp/src/test/resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ my-webapp ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.7.2:test (default-test) @ my-webapp ---
[INFO] No tests to run.
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /Users/jesper/dev/tmp/my-webapp/target/surefire-reports
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T E S T S
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There are no tests to run.
Results :
Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war (default-war) @ my-webapp ---
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [my-webapp] in [/Users/jesper/dev/tmp/my-webapp/target/my-webapp]
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Copying webapp resources [/Users/jesper/dev/tmp/my-webapp/src/main/webapp]
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [26 msecs]
[INFO] Building war: /Users/jesper/dev/tmp/my-webapp/target/my-webapp.war
[INFO] WEB-INF/web.xml already added, skipping
[INFO]
[INFO] --- tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.0-SNAPSHOT:exec-war-only (tomcat-run) @ my-webapp ---
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[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
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[INFO] Total time: 4.795s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jan 31 07:49:15 PST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/81M
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Run:
$ java -jar target/my-webapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT-war-exec.jar
Jan 31, 2012 7:49:45 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Jan 31, 2012 7:49:45 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Tomcat
Jan 31, 2012 7:49:45 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.25
Jan 31, 2012 7:49:45 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig getDefaultWebXmlFragment
INFO: No global web.xml found
Jan 31, 2012 7:49:45 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]