deploying a versioned WAR file to tomcat

I was wondering what would be the best practice to deploy a maven packaged WAR fil开发者_高级运维e to tomcat. Using maven release plugin I get a versioned war file for my project eg: myservice-1.0.0.war

I would like to deploy it to tomcat so that I can access it as follows eg: http://localhost:8080/myservice

By default tomcat explodes the war file as a directory with a name myservice-1.0.0 under CATALINA_HOME/webapps. But I want to to explode the war as a directory with a name myservice for the reasons mentioned above.

I know I can simply rename myservice-1.0.0.war >> myservice.war and then deploy it in Tomcat.

I wanted to find out what others do?

I would do it by mentioning myservice as artifactId and final name and using maven cargo plugin to deploy to tomcat. http://cargo.codehaus.org/Maven2+Plugin+Tips

You can package file /META-INF/context.xml with content like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Context>
<Context path="myapp">
</Context>

See documentation at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html

I ran into the same problem. What worked for me was inserting this properties element into the cargo deployable configuration:

                    <deployable>
                        <groupId>org.something</groupId>
                        <artifactId>something-idm-esb</artifactId>
                        <properties>
                            <context>something-idm-esb</context>
                        </properties>
                        <type>war</type>
                    </deployable>

Without this properties element, the app would be deployed to localhost:8080/something-idm-esb-0.9.14.2 which is not what the app needs at runtime. With the properties section, the app is deployed to localhost:8080/something-idm-esb/

Instead of renaming the war file you could do this:

Just add following in your tomcat-dir/conf/server.xml in between <Host>..<\Host> tags.

for : myservice-1.0.0.war file

<Context path="/myservice" docBase="/myservice-1.0.0" debug="0" reloadable="true"></Context>

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