JEE based projects with maven build artifacts like war or ear files is the cargo plugin the right choice for automatic deployments during the build process. First step is to define in the build section of your pom.xml the cargo plugin: org.codehaus.cargo cargo-maven2-plugin 1.1.4 tomcat6x remote runtime ${cargo.manager.url} ${cargo.username} ${cargo.password} remote ${project.groupId} ${project.artifactId} war ${project.artifactId} Notice [...]
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