The Deploy Apache Tomcat plugin can deploy to a virtual host (tomcat.VirtualHost) or common context (tomcat.CommonContext) container. WAR files are deployed to virtual hosts, while resources such as datasources are deployed to the global Tomcat configuration, which is stored in the common context. For more information about this plugin, see Apache Tomcat plugin.
The Deploy Apache Tomcat plugin is used to manage deployments on a Tomcat server. Standard support includes deploying and undeploying web applications, datasources, mail sessions, resource links, ActiveMQ, and WebSphere MQ resources. The plugin can be extended to support more deployment options or management of new artifacts and resources on Tomcat.
This tutorial describes how to deploy an application on Apache Tomcat. It assumes you have the Tomcat plugin installed.
The Apache Tomcat plugin for Deploy is designed to be extended through Deploy's plugin API type system. For more information about this plugin, see Apache Tomcat plugin.
Starting Tomcat