The purpose of tomcat-plugin is to provide Java Web Developers with a tool to easily deploy their changes to a locally installed Tomcat. At the moment, the main benefits of such a plugin are that you can: change a Web resource (HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc. -- specified by a resources section) without having to build the entire project and then manually copy files around; build your module as usual and then have the produced jars copied to Tomcat's webapps/$myWebapp/WEB-INF/lib and have Tomcat restarted for you; build your module as usual and then have the produced WAR copied to Tomcat's webapps; start/stop/restart your Tomcat; clean Tomcat work, logs, temp, and webapps; and integrate it with Eclipse and IntelliJ Idea.
