Running maven web project with maven tomcat7 plugin

With maven tomcat7 plugin you won't have download,install and configure Tomcat server seperately.Maven can do it for you.Just run:
mvn tomcat7:run
with a tomcat7 maven plugin enabled project and browse to localhost:port/path
In your pom.xml simply put this plugin:

1. <plugin>
2. <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
3. <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
4. <version>2.0</version>
5. <configuration>
6. <server>tomcat-development-server</server>
7. <port>9966</port> <!--make sure port doesnt conflict with others -->
8. <path>/SpringMVC</path><!--http://localhost:9966/SpringMVC/ -->
9. </configuration>
10. </plugin>

Example spring maven hello world web project pom.xml:

1. <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
2.      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
3.     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
4.     <groupId>com.mohi</groupId>
5.     <artifactId>SpringMVC</artifactId>
6.     <packaging>war</packaging>
7.     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
8.     <name>SpringMVC Maven Webapp</name>
9.     <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
11.     <dependencies>
13.         <dependency>
14.             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
15.             <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
16.             <version>4.0.3.RELEASE</version>
17.         </dependency>
18.     </dependencies>
20.     <build>
22.         <plugins>
23.             <plugin>
24.                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
25.                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
26.                 <version>2.3.2</version>
28.             </plugin>
31.             <plugin>
32.                 <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
33.                 <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
34.                 <version>2.0</version>
35.                 <configuration>
36.                     <server>tomcat-development-server</server>
37.                     <port>9966</port>
38.                     <path>/SpringMVC</path>
39.                 </configuration>
40.             </plugin>
41.         </plugins>
42.     </build>
45. </project>

Sample code:

Here is a Spring Helloworld maven with tomcat7 plugin example project SpringHelloworldMavenTomcat7PluginExample.zip

Download ,unzip and run:

mvn clean install tomcat7:run

Browse to localhost:9966/SpringMVC/welcome