Auto deploy maven project war file in company's server - maven

Question

I have created a maven project in netbeans and there i manually build a war file and upload to server.
My pom file only contains:
<properties>
<endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
...
<dependency>
<dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
<compilerArguments>
<endorseddirs>${endorsed.dir}</endorseddirs>
</compilerArguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${endorsed.dir}</outputDirectory>
<silent>true</silent>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-endorsed-api</artifactId>
<version>7.0</version>
<type>jar</type>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.datanucleus</groupId>
<artifactId>datanucleus-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0-release</version>
<configuration>
<log4jConfiguration>${basedir}/log4j.properties</log4jConfiguration>
<verbose>true</verbose>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>enhance</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!--<plugin>
<groupId>com.mysema.querydsl</groupId>
<artifactId>querydsl-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.9.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>export</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<jdbcDriver>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</jdbcDriver>
<jdbcUrl>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/login</jdbcUrl>
<jdbcUser>root</jdbcUser>
<packageName>com.titas.model</packageName>
<targetFolder>${project.basedir}/target/generated-sources/java</targetFolder>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.6</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>-->
<plugin>
<groupId>com.mysema.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>apt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>process</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>target/generated-sources/java</outputDirectory>
<processor>com.mysema.query.apt.jdo.JDOAnnotationProcessor</processor>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Now i want to auto deploy war file in company's server whenever i will build in netbeans.
Is there any tag to auto deploy in server in pom.xml? Like if i use any plugin where i will specify my server folder war file will auto deploy there and replace previous one.
Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

I don't have experience deploying to Tomcat specifically, and apparently it's different based on the version.
Tomcat 6/7
For Tomcat 6 replace "tomcat7" with "tomcat6" in the following lines.
Use the tomcat7-maven-plugin by putting this in the <build><plugins> section of your pom.xml:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://www.example.com:1234/mymanager</url>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Obviously change the url to match the URL of the server/manager you're trying to deploy to. If you need to specify credentials add a <server>servername</server> tag to the configuration block and put this in your maven settings.xml (under path <settings><servers>):
<server>
<id>servername</id>
<username>myusername</username>
<password>mypassword</password>
</server>
For other configuration changes see the plugin page linked above.
Once it's configured you should be able to run mvn package tomcat7:deploy to deploy to your server. Other maven goals are here.
Tomcat 8
The best I'm finding is this question: Tomcat 8 integration with Maven
The accepted answer uses the cargo-maven2-plugin, but looking at how it's configured I don't think that will go to a remote machine.
Alternately you can try the tomcat7 plugin as detailed above, I did see this blog post that suggests it works for 8 too.