Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin

Context Goals

The plugin provides goals to perform various tasks upon your project's context once deployed within Tomcat:

These are described in more detail below.

The goals required to redeploy a WAR project depend upon how it was deployed:

To redeploy a WAR project deployed by tomcat:deploy you can type:
```
mvn package tomcat6/7:redeploy
```
To redeploy a WAR project deployed by tomcat:exploded you can type:
```
mvn war:exploded tomcat6/7:redeploy
```
To redeploy a WAR project deployed by tomcat:inplace you can type:
```
mvn war:inplace tomcat6/7:redeploy
```
To redeploy a context.xml file deployed by tomcat:deploy you can type:
```
mvn tomcat6/7:redeploy
```
Note: Depending on the docBase specified in the context.xml you may also need to call war:exploded or war:inplace as above.

To undeploy a WAR from Tomcat you can type:

mvn tomcat6/7:undeploy

To start a WAR in Tomcat you can type:

mvn tomcat6:start

To stop a WAR in Tomcat you can type:

mvn tomcat6:stop

To list the session statistics for a deployed WAR project you can type:

mvn tomcat6:sessions