Using the gradle tomcat plugin

Question

I am trying to fiddle with the gradle-tomcat-plugin and I am having some issues with some of the preliminaries. Assuming that my WAR is present in one of my folders, what do I need to do in order to run the war in an embedded tomcat using gradles tomcat plugin? The readme mentions the tomcatRunWar but I am a little lost as to how to use it in my gradle file

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Solution

if you have set up everything right

go to your root directory (your build.gradle file should lie there), then execute

gradle tasks

and you should see tomcats different tasks

• tomcatRun: Starts a Tomcat instance and deploys the exploded web application to it.
• tomcatRunWar: Starts a Tomcat instance and deploys the WAR to it.
• tomcatStop: Stops the Tomcat instance.
• tomcatJasper: Runs the JSP compiler (Jasper) and turns JSP pages into Java source using.

and then you just run it

gradle tomcatRunWar

myself I prefer jetty plugin