title: Tomcat Maven Plugin for embedded Tomcat 8.5
body: <p>I'm running a Spring web application and failing to execute embedded tomcat in latest Eclipse with Tomcat 8.5 using <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-trunk/tomcat7-maven-plugin/usage.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tomcat 7 Maven Plugin </a>, I'm running <code> tomcat7:run-war</code> goal on windows but failed to configure it to run Tomcat 8.5, it keeps finding tomcat 7 folder.</p>
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  <p>tomcat7:run-war    Runs the current project as a packaged web application using an embedded Tomcat server.</p>
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  <p>I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26883836/tomcat-8-maven-plugin-for-java-8/35058957#35058957">answer</a> or <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37370927/jenkins-deploy-war-file-to-tomcat-8">this answer</a> but it's good for <strong>deploying</strong> tomcat .</p>
  <p>I found in <a href="https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/groups/public/org/apache/tomcat/maven/tomcat8-maven-plugin/3.0-r1655215/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a deleted link</a> tomcat8 plugin. Is it relevant?</p>
  <p>I found <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MTOMCAT/issues/MTOMCAT-234?filter=allopenissues" rel="nofollow noreferrer">issue</a> that suggest use spring boot feature instead, can someone provide more details?</p>
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  <p>it appears this project is dead, I recommend you look into using Spring Boot which has very similar features:
  <a href="https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot</a></p>
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  <p>Especially when <a href="https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.1.0.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#getting-started-system-requirements-servlet-containers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Spring Boot 2.1</a> won't support Tomcat7</p>