Use Maven for deploy SpringBoot application to remote tomcat 7/8

To pom.xml add:

<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency>

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<url>http://MyTomcatServer:8080/manager/text</url>
<server>TomcatServer</server>
<path>/restforjs</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>

To 

<main.basedir>${basedir}/../..</main.basedir>

Set "packaging" to war in section <properties>

<packaging>war</packaging>

Set your login/pasword in $USER_HOME/.m2/settings.xml . Example:

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"

          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0

                      https://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

    <servers>

        <server>

            <id>TomcatServer</id>

            <username>tomcatadmin</username>

            <password>MyCoolPassword</password>

        </server>

    </servers>

</settings>

Main class must extends SpringBootServletInitializer and overrides configure such as in example:

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;

import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

import org.springframework.boot.builder.SpringApplicationBuilder;

import org.springframework.boot.web.support.SpringBootServletInitializer;

@SpringBootApplication

public class MyCoolApplicationextends SpringBootServletInitializer {

@Override

protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {

return application.sources(MyCoolApplication.class);

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

MyCoolApplication.run(MyCoolApplication.class, args);

}

}

After this run to deploy: 

mvn tomcat7:deploy

Exist instance must had undeployed before that action:

mvn tomcat7:undeploy

You can run one command

mvn tomcat7:undeploy tomcat7:deploy