Start/Stop Tomcat using Maven

Tomcat launcher maven plugin allows starting/stopping a tomcat server instance directly from your project, based on maven. By using it you can take advantage of starting and stopping tomcat at the time of application build, mainly considering to deploy web applications prior running integration tests. It is target to Maven 3 and Apache Tomcat version 6 and 7 Usage Instructions on how to use the Tomcat Maven Plugin can be found on the usage page News 13th July, 2012 1.0-alpha1 released.