Java – maven-tomcat7-plugin generates a corrupted executable jar

I encountered a problem when using the maven tomcat7 plug-in to generate a jar archive with an embedded tomcat7 instance This is my POM XML fragment:

<plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.2</version>
            <configuration>
                <path>/${project.artifactId}</path>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>exec-war</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

My project uses war packaging The jar file of Tomcat containing the war archive of the project is generated, but when I try to run it, I receive an error:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/rafal.wrzeszcz/workspace/Mailer/.extract/webapps/mailer.war
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:214)
    at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:144)
    at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:153)
    at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:90)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.<init>(URLJarFile.java:93)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.getJarFile(URLJarFile.java:69)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarFileFactory.get(JarFileFactory.java:88)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.connect(JarURLConnection.java:122)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.getJarFile(JarURLConnection.java:89)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ExpandWar.expand(ExpandWar.java:113)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.fixDocBase(ContextConfig.java:722)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.init(ContextConfig.java:843)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:387)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.setStateInternal(LifecycleBase.java:402)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:110)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:139)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$startChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$startChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

I tried plug-in version 2.1 - the same results

This is the directory tree extracted by executing jar:

$ls -AR .extract
.extract:
conf  logs  temp  webapps  work

.extract/conf:

.extract/logs:
access_log.2014-03-07

.extract/temp:

.extract/webapps:

.extract/work:
Tomcat

.extract/work/Tomcat:
localhost

.extract/work/Tomcat/localhost:
mailer

.extract/work/Tomcat/localhost/mailer:

(you can see the files that have not been copied)

Solution

Remove path from configuration And use Tomcat plug-in version 2.1 Making these two changes in my POM file fixes similar problems for me I also cleaned up $M2 before running again_ Repo / org / Apache folder