使用生成的webapp文件夹将Maven项目部署到Apache Tomcat

Question

I am trying to build/deploy/run this maven/apache tomcat project LODE .

It's quite the first time I see this style of java web applications. I Followed the instructions provided on the website of this project. Started with maven clean install . Then an src folder was generated with a java folder (containing java classes) and a webapp folder (containing web resources) See the photo.

I am used to having a structure where a WebContent folder is there and a WAR file can generated.

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How to deploy this project into apache tomcat and get it to run?

Here is what I tried:

1. I tried generating a war file by editing the build section in pom.xml file. However, it did not work.
2. I tried to add the project to Apache Tomcat 9 in my eclipse IDE. However, Tomcat does not believe that this is a web project, so I cannot add it (using right click on Tomcat -> Add/Remove).
3. I tried to take the generated webapp folder and deploy it to Tomcat (without eclipse IDE --> tomcat manager ' http://localhost:8081/manager/html ' --> Deploy Directory) after creating WEB-INF/classes folder and moving the source qualified packages from the generated src folder to this folder. This did not work because the java classes were missing (cannot find the java class/package error).

Answer 1

LODE's README clearly says how to lunch the application. Well you don't see a war thus can't deploy on tomcat server.

I found two ways to make it work:

1. mvn clean jetty:run from the terminal. This will just work fine (runs on the jetty server).

2. For tomcat server, add <packaging>war</packaging> in the pom.xml to generate the war. Then either rename the generated war manually (for example, LODE-1.3-SNAPSHOT.war to lode.war) or use maven plugins to generate the war name. Now deploy this war to your tomcat server as usual.