First, what you're trying to do is not the normal use case for Maven as a build tool. I'd say you want to use Maven as some kind of utility. Therefore, the way to solve your need is not as straight forward as following the Maven way.
So, first, do you really need to use Maven? Why not continue to use Ant (or whatever you use to build the war)? If you still want to use Maven, I'd say the best way to solve things is to deploy the war to a Maven repo in your current build (you can use the Maven Ant task or any proprietary API for your repo manager). You then create a new Maven project with a dependency to this war artifact and use, for example, cargo to launch tomcat with the war deployed. Then use some Maven plugin to do your selenium testing. If you don't install the war in a repository, your need to do some Maven tweaking (not the Maven way!). I don't recommend this and don't really want to explain how to solve this as it will lead to so many questions and a life time support case. :-) But if anyone else wants to have a try, please do so. /Anders On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 07:53, ensienne <t.zei...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a war generated by a non build maven. > this war is placed in /home/usr/ws/myapp/target/app.war > > I want to create a maven project that can deploy this war into installed > tomcat (/usr/home/tomcat-6), launch it. > The next step is to run some selenium tests on this war. > > I have created a maven project with the pom linked but it does not work. > there is no error displayed and it does nothing ( no war deployed). > I hope that this clarify my need!!!!. > > Thank you very much for your help > > -- > View this message in context: > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/how-to-deploy-a-nonbuild-maven-war-in-tomcat-with-maven2-tp4267525p4268820.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
