Specify one or more web contexts files to run under local tomcat integration in addition to defined web facet(s)
Reason: web application often dependent on web services or some other web app running and
currently there is no way to start it under tomcat local integration together with project web facet(s)
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I wonder if it is possible to run one or more additional web applications
when using local tomcat integration. Currently the only option is to run
tomcat manager in addition to application defined by web facet. It would be
very helpful to allow list of additional contexts to be copied (and
therefore executed) to tomcat working directory from specified
catalina.home. They need to be copied as is with no change of docBase or any
other settings.
For us it is a deal breaker for using tomcat integration because we have
several application sharing some services on the same tomcat instance and
we've got to start these services when working with our web facet
A plugin can have no web facets, it needs to be packaged appropriately and then already deployed application (TeamCity server) will use it.
It would be convenient to have a build configuration to perform packaging stage (can be done in Ant) and run Tomcat with the application already deployed into it (default webapps).
So in this case, no webapp deployment/undeployment is necessary, only starting/stopping/restarting external web server.