Question

I am running Eclipse Galileo with Tomcat 6.0.18.

Currently, I have a working application with the m2Eclipse plugin installed. It deploys to Tomcat and I am able to test my application.

I am wanting to switch over to just using the Maven Eclipse plugin. The problem is that Tomcat is refusing to deploy my application.

I have converted my web project to a dynamic web module and set all my build paths as close to my previous m2Eclipse workspace as possible and still no success. When I hit the url, I just get a blank page.

What I did narrow down was that in my m2Eclipse workspace, when Tomcat publishes the web project, the context.xml file in [TOMCAT_HOME]\conf\Catalina\localhost has the docBase set to the “Web Content” directory. While my Maven Eclipse workspace, the context.xml that Tomcat publishes to have the docBase set to “Java Source” directory.

What do I need to do to have my “Maven Eclipse” workspace integrated with Tomcat work successfully like my m2Eclipse workspace?

Answer 1

Seams you don’t have proper configuration of maven-eclipse-plugin if you converted project manually to dynamic web module.

According to maven-eclipse-plugin documentation you need to specify additional configuration in your pom (or by passing -D parameters) for WTP project. Key is <wtpversion> tag.

     <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                    <projectNameTemplate>[artifactId]-[version]</projectNameTemplate>
                    <wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
                    <wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
                    <wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
                    <manifest>${basedir}/src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifest>
            </configuration>
    </plugin>