Spring MVC Blueprints

Project deployment

Apache Tomcat 7 will be used as the application server for this chapter. There are two popular Maven plugins that can be used to deploy applications to Tomcat: the Apache Maven plugin and the Mojo Maven plugin. By default, this book uses the Mojo Maven plugin.

To deploy a Maven project to Tomcat using the Mojo Maven plugin, the following configuration must be followed:

1. Locate the user/conf/tomcat-users.xml file on the Tomcat server and add the desired user with administrator rights. Information like role, username and password of the added user must be added inside the <tomcat-user> tag. A sample configuration is shown in the following code snippet:

    <role rolename="manager"/> <role rolename="admin"/> <user username="admin" password="admin" ...