How to do it...

Open the POM file of your Maven project and add the following details:

1. There is no available working Maven plugin for Tomcat 9 so we need to use the latest stable version, which is tomcat7-maven-plugin. Add the following Maven plugin details for Tomcat 7 deployment under the <plugins> section of the <build>:

<plugin> 
  <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId> 
  <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId> 
  <version>2.2</version> 
  <configuration> 
    <url>https://spring5server:8443/manager/text</url> 
    <path>/ch01</path> 
    <keystoreFile>C:MyFilesDevelopmentServersTomcat9.0 
    confspring5server.keystore</keystoreFile> 
    <keystorePass>packt@@</keystorePass> 
    <update>true</update> 
    <username>packt</username> 
    <password>packt</password> 
  </configuration> 
</plugin>

1. Right-click on the project and click on Run As | Maven Build... and execute the following goal: clean install tomcat7:deploy

1. Everything is successful if the console outputs this Maven log: