> > This is the first time that I can recall that anyone has stated that > there is a requirement for this. >
I should say many companies, including mine are injecting full Tomcat (as zip) in their enterprise repositories (Archiva/Nexus/Artifactory powered) > Granted, the Tomcat project currently has no interest in using Maven as > a build system but that doesn't mean Maven is ignored. A lot of work > went into improving the Maven artefacts for Tomcat 7. Use of Maven was allready discussed many times and Tomcat project still stick with Ant. BTW, did there is a strong -1 to have an alternative build system using Maven if this build keep the current Tomcat structure ?