Empty white pages in tomcat maven plugin's embedded tomcat instance

Question

I've a Spring server application accessible from Android clients or as webapp. When I use my Android client it all works fine. But when I try to access the webapp, running it into the embedded tomcat (version 7) started with tomcat7:run from tomcat maven plugin, I get empty white pages both in http://localhost:8080/ and in http://localhost:8080/my-app-name.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <configuration>
        <url>http://192.168.1.68:8080/manager</url>
    </configuration>
    <dependencies>      
      <dependency>
         <groupId>mysql</groupId>
         <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
         <version>5.1.9</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
</plugin>

Answer 1

use version 2.0 as it's now released. Then configure the path with

<path>/yourpath</path>

Check the logs. Is there any error message ?