Making Eclipse, Maven and Tomcat to play nice

Hi,

So I've been struggeling with this for hours, till I found one ultimate solution to run and debug a tomcat servlet in Eclipse, so here it is:


First a parent pom should look something like this:

<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <parent>
  <groupId>com.nu.art.software</groupId>
  <artifactId>nu-art-maven-deploy-project</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1</version>
 </parent>

 <groupId>com.nu.art.software</groupId>
 <artifactId>tomcat-servlet-maven-parent</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.1</version>
 <packaging>pom</packaging>

 <name>Tomcat Servlet Parent Pom</name>
 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
   <artifactId>tomcat-catalina</artifactId>
   <version>7.0.27</version>
   <scope>provided</scope>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>

 <build>
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.1</version>
    <configuration>
     <webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>
  </plugins>
  <finalName>${project.name}</finalName>
 </build>
</project>

Note the location of the web.xml & project name...

Next is the child project pom, which should like something like this:

<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">
 <parent> 
  <artifactId>tomcat-servlet-maven-parent</artifactId>
  <groupId>com.nu.art.software</groupId>
  <version>0.0.1</version> 
 </parent> 
    
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>com.nu.art.software.cyborg.androidServicesUtility</groupId>
 <artifactId>android-services-utility-server</artifactId>
 <packaging>war</packaging>
 <version>0.1.0</version>
 <name>Android-Services-Utility-Server</name>
 <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>junit</groupId>
   <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
   <version>3.8.1</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>com.nu.art.software.arttpServer</groupId>
   <artifactId>arttp-servlet</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1</version>
   <scope>compile</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>com.nu.art.software</groupId>
   <artifactId>dbator</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1</version>
   <type>jar</type>
   <scope>compile</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>com.nu.art.software.cyborg</groupId>
   <artifactId>cyborg-crash-report-core</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1</version>
   <type>jar</type>
   <scope>compile</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>com.nu.art.software.cyborg.server</groupId>
   <artifactId>cyborg-server-module-crash-report</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1</version>
   <type>jar</type>
  </dependency>
   <dependency>
   <groupId>com.nu.art.software.cyborg.server</groupId>
   <artifactId>cyborg-server-module-c2dm</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.1</version>
   <type>jar</type>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>
</project>

And finally goto Project -> Properties -> Deployment Assembly, And remove all the content from it. Add the following folder to the assembly: target/${project.name}

This would result in debugging the latest servlet build by Maven. so in order to launch it install your project, and Run/Debug on server...

NOTE!!! 

This is not a perfect working setup, but if you are struggling with the bugger, and want to be able to quickly evaluate your project, this works fine.