How to create war in specific location using maven tomcat plugin

Question

I was using maven's tomcat plugin for deploying my web application to tomcat server. now i need the same war file in a different location(not directly deploy to tomcat server.). So that i can manually copy my war file to another machine's and deploy it.

My current pom.xml configuration is

      <profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>staging</id>
        <build>
            <pluginManagement>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                        <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>2.2</version>
                        <configuration>
                             <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
                            <server>mytomcat</server>
                            <path>/project1</path>
                                <username>xxxxxxx</username>
                            <password>xxxxxxxx</password>
                        </configuration>
                    </plugin>
                </plugins>
            </pluginManagement>
        </build>
    </profile>

Were you able to implement this or do you need any more help? — Madhu Bhat, Sep 20 '18 at 08:32
Also please read this https://stackoverflow.com/help/someone-answers — Madhu Bhat, Sep 22 '18 at 02:40

Alien · Answer 1 · 2018-09-19T07:31:09.407

1

You can use profiles.

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>otherOutputDir</id>
        <build>
            <directory>yourDirectory</directory>
        </build>
    </profile>
</profiles>

Refer

Maven: How to change path to target directory from command line? and

Maven: specify the outputDirectory only for packaging a jar?

edited Sep 19 '18 at 07:31

answered Sep 19 '18 at 07:25

Alien

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '18 at 08:40

The easiest way would be to add the Spring Boot Maven Plugin to your project's pom.xml (with Maven 3.2 or later) as shown below:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.5.RELEASE</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>repackage</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

along with the type of artifact that you need, ie jar or war within the project tag of your pom as shown below:

<packaging>war</packaging>

Next whenever you run the package phase of maven (with mvn package command for eg), the artifact would be generated within the target folder. More info on the same is provided in the Spring documentation here.

For other ways of generating the war/jar artifact, please refer to this Baeldung article.

How to create war in specific location using maven tomcat plugin

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