Maven – tomcat7-maven-plugin / tomcat7:run where to store custom context.xml

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I like to develop using the tomcat7-maven-plugin, especially the mvn tomcat7:run / tomcat7:run-war goal in order to quickly test my app,

this plugin allows you to specify a custom Context.xml (which is very handy to provide stub for jndi datasources)

my issue is, I can not think of a good place to store this Context.xml. it simply does not fit well in the maven standard directory layout…

any idea ? best practices ? 😀

thx,

Best Answer

OK, I have not found a proper answer. In case someone wonders, I took this approach: 

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <contextFile>${project.basedir}\src\tomcat7-maven-plugin\resources\context.xml</contextFile>
    </configuration>
</plugin>


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