Run Maven Java Web Application in Tomcat Maven Plugin

Introduction
Quick create Maven Web Application Project
Search Tomcat Maven Plugin version to use
Configure and run Maven Project
Run Maven Web Application in Jetty Maven Plugin

1. Introduction

This guide was written based on:

Eclipse 4.6 (NEON)
Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.2

The steps in this tutorial:

2. Quick create Maven Web Application Project

This is image of project is created.

The contents of the file pom.xml was created:

Do not worry about the error message when the Project has been created. The reason is that you do not declare the Servlet library.

Eclipse 4.4 (Luna) create Maven project structure may be wrong. You need to fix.

3. Search Tomcat Maven Plugin version to use

Next we will find a version of "Tomcat Maven Plugin" (fit or newest):

http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat.maven/tomcat7-maven-plugin

4. Configure and run Maven Project

Configure Maven Servlet Library

<!-- Servlet Library -->
<dependency>
   <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
   <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
   <version>3.1.0</version>
   <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Copy and paste the following code into pom.xml

<plugins>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
        <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.2</version>
    </plugin>
</plugins>

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>org.o7planning</groupId>
   <artifactId>SimpleMavenWebApp</artifactId>
   <packaging>war</packaging>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>SimpleMavenWebApp Maven Webapp</name>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>junit</groupId>
           <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
           <version>3.8.1</version>
           <scope>test</scope>
       </dependency>

       <!-- Servlet Library -->
       <dependency>
           <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
           <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
           <version>3.1.0</version>
           <scope>provided</scope>
       </dependency>
       
   </dependencies>
   

   <build>
       <finalName>SimpleMavenWebApp</finalName>
       <plugins>
       
           <!-- Config: Maven Tomcat Plugin -->
           <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat.maven/tomcat7-maven-plugin -->
           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
               <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.2</version>
               <!-- Config: contextPath and Port (Default - /SimpleMavenWebApp : 8080) -->
               <!--
               <configuration>
                   <path>/</path>
                   <port>8899</port>
               </configuration>
               -->  
           </plugin>
       </plugins>
   </build>
   
</project>

Configure Project to run. Right-click on the Project select "Run As / Run Configurations ...".