Hot Deployment in IntelliJ and Tomcat

[Joe San]

Guys,

I have a multi module Maven web application and I would like to know how I could configure my Tomcat server in IntelliJ to hot deploy the web application when I make any changes to the class files in my source folder of my Maven web application.

[Joe San]

What I do now is to open a command prompt (on my windows machine), locate to the project folder and do a mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true and then go to the target folder, copy the war file and paste it to the webapps directory of Tomcat and restart Tomcat.

What I want to achieve is the following:

(1) Configure Tomcat in IntelliJ and add it as a Run configuration to my project - I did this already
(2) Make any changes that I do for the class files, result in the changes to the exploded war of my webapp in the Tomcat webapps directory

I tried googling for this, but no satisfactory answers. There were ways to do this using Eclipse, but I'm astonished to see that using IntelliJ is hard.

[Joe San]

When I tried accessing the port 8009, I got the following error:

07.04.2010 12:31:02 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
07.04.2010 12:31:02 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
07.04.2010 12:31:02 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 485 ms
07.04.2010 12:31:02 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
07.04.2010 12:31:02 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.28
07.04.2010 12:31:02 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
07.04.2010 12:31:03 org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet initChain
INFO: Loading chain catalog from jar:file:/C:/Programme/apache-tomcat-5.5.28/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/struts-core-1.3.10.jar!/org/apache/struts/chain/chain-config.xml
07.04.2010 12:31:03 org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/org/apache/struts/validator/validator-rules.xml'
07.04.2010 12:31:03 org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validation.xml'
07.04.2010 12:31:04 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
07.04.2010 12:31:04 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
07.04.2010 12:31:04 org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/16  config=null
07.04.2010 12:31:04 org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
07.04.2010 12:31:05 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 2344 ms
07.04.2010 12:31:14 org.apache.jk.common.MsgAjp processHeader
SCHWERWIEGEND: BAD packet signature 18245
07.04.2010 12:31:14 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket processConnection
SCHWERWIEGEND: Error, processing connection
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
	at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:272)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.read(ChannelSocket.java:627)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.receive(ChannelSocket.java:584)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:692)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:897)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
07.04.2010 12:31:20 org.apache.jk.common.MsgAjp processHeader
SCHWERWIEGEND: BAD packet signature 18245
07.04.2010 12:31:20 org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket processConnection
SCHWERWIEGEND: Error, processing connection
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
	at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:272)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.read(ChannelSocket.java:627)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.receive(ChannelSocket.java:584)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:692)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:897)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
07.04.2010 12:32:12 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol pause
INFO: Pausing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
07.04.2010 12:32:13 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService stop
INFO: Stopping service Catalina
07.04.2010 12:32:13 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol destroy
INFO: Stopping Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
07.04.2010 12:32:13 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: Failed shutdown of Apache Portable Runtime

[Joe San]

Any suggestions?