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POM.xml:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/html</url>
        <server>myserver</server>
        <path>/test</path>
        <warFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.war</warFile>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Eclipse used: Eclipse indigo 3.7 with m2e plugin

modified
Tomcat7/conf/tomcat-users.xml

 <role rolename="admin"/>
  <role rolename="manager"/>
  <user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin,manager"/>
</tomcat-users>

Context.xml
Tomcat7/conf/context.xml, change <context> to 

<Context antiJARLocking="true" antiResourceLocking="true">

under apache-maven\conf\settings.xml

add following entry under server tag:

  <servers>
    <server>
    <id>myserver</id>
    <username>admin</username>
    <password>admin</password>
    </server>

Start tomcat server.

target run: tomcat:deploy and tomcat:undeploy

getting following error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin:1.1:redeploy (default-cli) on project test: Cannot invoke Tomcat manager: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://localhost:8080/manager/html/deploy?path=%2Ftest&war=&update=true -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException

project name: test

war file name: test-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war

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Best Answer

Though a late answer , someone might find this useful. If you are using maven3 and tomcat7.The below method worked for me.I was not aware of the change in application manager endpoint in tomcat7.

Environment - Apache Maven 3.0.4,apache-tomcat-7.0.34,Windows 7

Tomcat7 has changed its deployment end point from http://tomcatserver:8080/manager/html to http://tomcatserver:8080/manager/text .

So my pom.xml will be 

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <configuration>
           <url>http://tomcatserver:8080/manager/text</url>
           <server>tomcat</server>
          <path>/myWebApp</path>
         </configuration>
  </plugin>

In tomcat-users.xml

<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
  <role rolename="manager-script"/>
  <role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
  <role rolename="manager-status"/>
  <role rolename="admin-gui"/>
  <role rolename="admin-script"/>

  <user username="root" password="root" roles="manager-gui,manager-script,manager-jmx,manager-status,admin-gui,admin-script"/>

In maven settings.xml

<server>
  <id>tomcat</id>
  <username>root</username>
  <password>root</password>
</server>

In context.xml , though this is optional and is not related to maven3 deployment to tomcat7 ,sometimes jar locking might happen,so to be on the safer side.

<Context  antiJARLocking="true" antiResourceLocking="true">

Now issue 

mvn tomcat:deploy

Remember to start tomcat before maven deployment.

If deployment is success , your application will be available at 

http://tomcatserver:8080/myWebApp
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