How to deploy maven project to tomcat inside your eclipse

1. After you created your maven project, you should convert it to dynamic web project:

right click your project and click preference and then go to project facets configuration page to select the Dynamic Web Module(version2.5, 3.0 only tomcat7+ support):

2. After step1, your project will auto generate one WebContent folder, you just delete it.

3. Right click your project and click preference then go to Deployment Assembly:

select the /WebContent and then click remove to remove

4. Click Add button, then select folder to click next button:

5. add you src/main/resources and src/main/webapp

6. add the maven jar dependancy :

7. Finally the configuration will show like below:

8. Then you can deploy your project to the tomcat.