使用tomcat-maven-plugin将单个war部署到多个tomcats

Question

I'm trying to deploy a single war project to multiple tomcats using mvn tomcat:deploy . Since these are listener project (aka workers), their overlapping names are irrelevant. When I have

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <url>`http://192.168.116.54:8080/`manager/text</url>
        <server>standaardTomcat</server>
        <path>/picalcworker</path>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

a single war will be deployed on that server. Though I cannot have multiple 'plugins' of the same groupId artifactId combination, so simply copy this and change the url will result in a warning and only one (the latest) to be deployed.
This plugin further seems to allow:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
        <id>1</id>
        <phase>deploy</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>deploy</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <url>http://192.168.116.52:8080/manager/text</url>
                <server>standaardTomcat</server>
                <path>/picalcworker</path>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
        <execution>
        <id>2</id>
        <phase>deploy</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>deploy</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <url>http://192.168.116.53:8080/manager/text</url>
                <server>standaardTomcat</server>
                <path>/picalcworker</path>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

but then mvn tomcat:deploy will try to deploy to localhost , since <configuration><url> was empty in this plugin's root (but I cannot supply a singular url there, since I need multiple). Also possible tomcat7 and tomcat6. I really like the deploy and undeploy options. Does anybody know how to make this work, or some reasonable alternative?

Answer 1

currently not possible. Note the plugin is now hosted at Apache see http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin.html . Can you load a jira for that ? That need a bit of code (maybe you can add a patch :-) )