This Tomcat 7 Maven Plugin supports a full-featured Tomcat for testing (mainly integration-tests) with Maven. It supports multiple webapps deployed on tomcat.

• libs and webapps configured to load and run don't have to define a version if their version is declared in the pom.xml (27.06.2011)

• license header updated (21.06.2011)

• new default version is 7.0.16 (21.06.2011)

• complete refactoring (smallsteps-api) and rewrite for setup process (21.06.2011)

• alexcojocaru supported an update to react on changed class-files, thanks to alex (17.05.2011)

• integration tests added to test that local artifacts are resolved (17.05.2011)

• default version for tomcat is now 7.0.14 (17.05.2011)

• first simple implementation for scanning changed resources (use 0.9.7-SNAPSHOT, 27.04.2011) as version in your pom.mxl, please report all your issues, thanks

• default version for tomcat is now 7.0.8

• configure systemproperties is supported 0.9.7-SNAPSHOT (07.02.2011), try it

• default version for tomcat is now 7.0.6 (first official release of Tomcat 7)

• latest release is 0.9.6 (04.10.2010)

• runs any version of tomcat 7 or 6 you cand find in maven-central

• runs multiple webapps in the container where contextPath is configurable

• cofigure shared libs similar to dependencies in pom.xml

• using some best practices for configuration in server.xml

Change the port tomcat is listening for http connections (default is 8080). Use the tomcatHttpPort configuration element.

	<configuration>
	  <tomcatHttpPort>12345</tomcatHttpPort>
	</configuration>

Change the port tomcat is listening for shutdown (default is 8005). Use the tomcatShutdownPort configuration element.

	<configuration>
	  <tomcatShutdownPort>54321</tomcatShutdownPort>
	</configuration>

Change version of tomcat (default is 7.0.16). Use the tomcatVersion configuration element.

	<configuration>
	  <tomcatVersion>6.0.28</tomcatVersion>
	</configuration>