[ANN] Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin 2.0-beta-1 Released

[Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org>]

Hello,
The Apache Tomcat team is pleased to announce the release of Tomcat
Maven Plugin 2.0-beta-1.

The Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin provides goals to manipulate WAR
projects within the Apache Tomcat servlet container.
Documentation site: http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.0-beta-1/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
         <artifactId>tomcat6-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.0-beta-1</version>
       </plugin>
or
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
         <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>2.0-beta-1</version>
       </plugin>

Release Notes - Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin - Version 2.0-beta-1

** New Feature
   * [MTOMCAT-70] - Make useNaming=false the default for the embedded
Tomcat and make it configurable
   * [MTOMCAT-77] - Add support for using the test class path instead
of the compile classpath with tomcat:run
   * [MTOMCAT-87] - Make http protocol configurable for the embedded Tomcat
   * [MTOMCAT-102] - Add a mojo to build a standalone jar to run a web
application
   * [MTOMCAT-110] - Support Slf4j bridge logger

** Bug
   * [MTOMCAT-85] - Perfoming tomcat:redeploy is not reflected in log messages
   * [MTOMCAT-103] - Executable War fails to run with a NullPointerException
   * [MTOMCAT-104] - Running java -jar from a parent directory causes
a Zip file error
   * [MTOMCAT-106] - tomcat7-maven-plugin extraDependency not working
with class not found
   * [MTOMCAT-108] - THe httpsPort flag starts another http thread not
an https thread
   * [MTOMCAT-109] -
<protocol>org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol</protocol> not
honoured

** Improvement
   * [MTOMCAT-15] - Add dependency scanning support to tomcat:run
   * [MTOMCAT-43] - Allow configuration of URI encoding for tomcat run goals
   * [MTOMCAT-62] - Support Tomcat 7
   * [MTOMCAT-78] - Upgrade to tomcat 6.0.32
   * [MTOMCAT-95] - Add directories to the embedded tomcat classloader
(equivalent to shared.loader property in regular tomcat instance).
   * [MTOMCAT-100] - support war overlay to add war external
dependencies in tomcat run
   * [MTOMCAT-111] - Make extract directory configurable
   * [MTOMCAT-113] - Show progress on WAR uploads
   * [MTOMCAT-114] - Add an archetype project sample
   * [MTOMCAT-115] - Allow configuration of URI encoding for executable war


Have Fun!
--
The Apache Tomcat Team

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