Tomcat 7 deployment fails. org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64 not found - maven

Question

I am trying to deploy a web application to a Tomcat 7 instance using the tomcat7-maven-plugin's tomcat7:deploy goal. However, it continuously fails to deploy, citing that:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/codec/binary/Base64
All of the posts I've read suggest adding the Apache commons-codec to pom.xml. I have done that and it doesn't do a bit of good. I tried manually downloading the JAR and placing it in the WEB-INF/lib folder but that also had no effect.
Here is my pom.xml file:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>edu.uta</groupId>
<artifactId>MavAppoint</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>MavAppoint Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
<version>1.10</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>mail</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-catalina</artifactId>
<version>7.0.59</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>MavAppoint</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
<server>TomcatServer</server>
<path>/MavAppoint</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I have tried changing the scope for the commons-codec but nothing has worked so far. It's been driving me absolutely nuts! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I ended up using the "Run on Server" option in Eclipse to run the application instead of trying to deploy the application to the Tomcat installation on my computer.