The Apache Tomcat plugin can deploy WAR files to Tomcat servers and manage the Tomcat lifecycle. 

Supported Versions

• 6.0.x
• 7.0.x
• 8.0.x
• 8.5.x

The Manager webapp must be installed, which provides the API for the Ant tasks to hit.

Key Features

• WAR deployments
• Application/Server start and stop operations
• Supports multi-server installations

Plugin Operations

• deploy
• reloadApplication
• startApplication (Tomcat)
• startServer
• stopApplication (Tomcat)
• stopServer
• undeploy