tomcat7-maven-plugin / tomcat7:run where to store custom context.xml?

Question

I like to develop using the tomcat7-maven-plugin, especially the mvn tomcat7:run / tomcat7:run-war goal in order to quickly test my app,

this plugin allows you to specify a custom Context.xml (which is very handy to provide stub for jndi datasources)

my issue is, I can not think of a good place to store this Context.xml. it simply does not fit well in the maven standard directory layout...

any idea ? best practices ? :D

thx,

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 15 '16 at 13:18

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OK, I have not found a proper answer. In case someone wonders, I took this approach:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <contextFile>${project.basedir}\src\tomcat7-maven-plugin\resources\context.xml</contextFile>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Comments are welcome!

edited Sep 15 '16 at 13:18

informatik01

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answered Jun 19 '14 at 21:16

gjambet

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This saved my day! I used `additionalConfigFilesDir` but I could not access them within autowired environment variable. With `contextFile `worked great. Thanks. – Evris Tzam Oct 02 '18 at 08:43

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '14 at 13:58

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We use the tomcat7-maven-plugin for integration tests with maven-surefire-plugin. For this purpose we this path:

<contextFile>${project.basedir}/src/test/resources/context.xml</contextFile>

If you run it only for testing this would fit.

answered Jul 16 '14 at 13:58

Michael_S

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thx, i did not took this approach as i'm not really fond of mixing resources for unit testing (both locally and externally) and resources dedicated to runt a plugin for integration tests – gjambet Aug 11 '15 at 14:29

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