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.
