Unable to Deploy war using maven 3.x - maven-2

Question

I am trying to deploy my web-application to tomcat using maven 3.x here is the snap shot of the pom.xml file
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.demo</groupId>
<artifactId>demoapp</artifactId>
<version>2.2.3</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Blank Webapp</name>
<properties>
<struts2.version>2.2.3</struts2.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-core</artifactId>
<version>${struts2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-config-browser-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${struts2.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts2-junit-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${struts2.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-mock</artifactId>
<version>2.0.8</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.1</version>
<configuration>
<packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/web.xml</packagingExcludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<warFile>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.war</warFile>
<url>http://localhost:8080/manager/html</url>
<server>localhost</server>
<path>/WebApp</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
i tried the following goal in maven mvn deploy but i got the following build fail with following error
Deployment failed: repository element was not specified in the POM inside distributionManagement element or in -DaltDeploymentRepository=id::layout::url parameter -> [Help 1]
after doing some googling i added the following entry to my pom.xml
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>myRepoId</id>
<name>myCompanyReporsitory</name>
<!-- <url>scp://nothing/</url>
<url>${user.home}/m2/repository</url> -->
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
but i am not sure what should be the URL since using ${user.home}/m2/repository gave another error with build failure
Failed to deploy artifacts/metadata: No connector available to access repository myRepoId (C:\Users\admin/m2/repository) of type default using the available factories WagonRepositoryConnectorFactory -> [Help 1]
How to solve the problem?

Answer 1

The mvn deploy tries to send the result of the package goal to the url of repository described in your POM.
I aims not at deploying a Web application on its server but to share the library produced with other.
If what you need is to deploy you webapp, then the tomcat plugin is a solution.
BTW: The connector issue when trying to deploy is due to the fact that to enable SCP you need to add the wagon-scp connector.