Question

Cargo Problem

Using Maven, uploading to server seems to be done via Cargo plugin or the “Tomcat plugin“. But as it seems they use the Tomcat manager application to upload to the server:

• This link: Maven: copy WAR to Tomcat's webapps directory, does not provide a way to upload, It’s about copying (locally) the package. I don’t want to copy locally. Want to upload to remote server.
• This one: Deploying maven project into an existing Tomcat server, suggests Tomcat plugin. But I don’t want to be dependent on manager application access.

Just Want Uploading The File

Any way I just want to have something like: simply providing FTP of SFTP access to the target folder (usually $CATALINA_HOME/webapp) for the plugin and it just uploads the war file to the target. No manager access, nothing like that. The rest is taken of by autodeploy in Tomcat.

So, what is the solution?

P.S. mvn delpoy does not seem to be a solution, since it says it’s for “repositories” not runtime.

Answer 1

You can use either the maven-exec-plugin to execute any shell script doing the scp.

Another solution, if you are familiar with ant is to use the maven-antrun-plugin and having an ant task doing the scp

helpful links :

• exec-plugin
• antrun-plugin + scp