I was searching for Apache Tomcat 7 Maven plugin. I found only messages that no such thing exists and that I have to use some workaround. Finally I found link at StackOwerflow that pointed me to the testing version of such a plugin.
You just need to configure repository and update mojo definition.
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>people.apache.snapshots</id>
<url>http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>apache.snapshots</id>
<name>Apache Snapshots</name>
<url>http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/</url>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<configuration>
<path>/</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
You can run Tomcat7 by: mvn tomcat7:run
You can read more about this new version of Tomcat Maven plugin at tomcat.apache.org.
This plugin is still under development.
BTW: List Maven plugins hosted at Apache.org is available at maven.apache.org/plugins.


