How to copy .war to Tomcat’s webapps directory using Maven?
<build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.2.1</version> <configuration> <outputDirectory><!– Tomcat webapps location–></outputDirectory> <!– Example of Tomcat webapps location :D:\tomcat\webapps\ –> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> Once you have added it to your pom.xml, you can copy the WAR file by calling mvn package or mvn war:war.