MavenTomcatPlugin

The [Tobago] page has an example of using the Maven Tomcat Plugin.

~/svn/maven/
$ svn co https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/mojo-sandbox/maven-tomcat-plugin    mojo/mojo-sandbox/maven-tomcat-plugin
$ cd mojo/mojo-sandbox/maven-tomcat-plugin
$ mvn install

• Define a user in $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml with the manager role.
• Configure that user in ~/.m2/settings.xml has a server defined

<servers>
      <server> 
         <username>user</username>
         <password>pass</password>
         <id>tomcat</id>
      </server>
   </servers>

• Configure the plugin in your pom.xml

            <plugin>
               <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
               <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
               <configuration>
                  <server>tomcat</server>
                  <update>true</update>
                  <!--url>change if not http://localhost:8080/manager</url-->
               </configuration>
            </plugin>

And then cd to a directory containing a war packaged project

$ mvn tomcat:deploy

$ mvn tomcat:undeploy

References

• Maven 1 plugin: http://www.codeczar.com/products/maven-tomcat-plugin/index.html