With maven 3 and the tomcat-maven-plugin, you will be able to run the webapp from the top
and include all the other modules in the webapp classloader.
No more need to install everything to run the jetty plugin.
-So just use : mvn tomcat6:run -Pdev -Ptomcat or mvn tomcat7:run -Pdev -Ptomcat
+So just use : mvn tomcat6:run -Pdev -Ptomcat -pl :archiva-webapp -am or mvn tomcat7:run -Pdev -Ptomcat -pl :archiva-webapp -am
and hit in your browser : http://localhost:9091/archiva
note with dev profile admin account is automatically created with password admin123
</configuration>
</execution>
<!--
- redefine to override exclude configuration (and exlude back struts-security.xml :-)
+ redefine to override exclude configuration (and exclude back struts-security.xml :-)
tomcat plugin 2.0 has a better support of war overlay
-->
<execution>