[MTOMCAT-118] tomcat7:run wont accept additionalClasspathDir arguments

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-1, 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: tomcat7

Environment

Apache Maven 3.0 (r1004208; 2010-10-04 12:50:56+0100)
Java version: 1.6.0_24
Java home: C:\dev\java\java\jre
Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7" version: "6.1" arch: "amd64" Family: "windows"

• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: Dave Lund
• Created: 02/Feb/12 09:45
• Updated: 03/Feb/12 17:34
• Resolved: 03/Feb/12 16:17

Description

Using the below configuration, the following error is given:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.0-SNAPSHOT:run (default-cli) on project XXX: A type incompatibility occured while executing org.apache.tomcat.maven:tomcat7-maven-plugin:2.0-SNAPSHOT:run: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.io.File

Example taken from docs site http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.0-SNAPSHOT/run-mojo-features.html

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<configuration>
<!-- http port -->
<port>9090</port>
<path>/</path>
<useTestClasspath>false</useTestClasspath>
<contextFile>src/sandbox/tomcat/sandbox-context.xml</contextFile>
<additionalClasspathDirs>
<additionalClasspathDir>src/test/resources</additionalClasspathDir>
</additionalClasspathDirs>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>${mysql.mysql-connector-java}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
<version>0.9.15</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>