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cd thalia-maven/trunk/thalia
mvn clean package
It will create or update the target directory and add the file ROOT.war .
4. If you're doing a release and the build completed without error, commit the branch.
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c. To specify tomcat authentication info in Maven, add the following line in settings.xml in $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml
<server>
<id>deploymentserver</id>
<username>username</username>
<password>password</password>
</server>
d. Deploy with Maven:
mvn tomcat:deploy
The war will be deployed to ROOT. Undeploy ROOT first, then deploy the new war. (How?? Does Maven take care of that? -jbowker )