Tomcat7 with maven, contextReloadable not getting applied

Question

In my pom.xml, I have the following profile :

      <profile>
        <id>local</id>
        <build>
            <finalName>webProject</finalName>
            <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <path>/</path>
                    <contextReloadable>true</contextReloadable>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>

I am running tomcat with the following command from my command line:

mvn clean tomcat7:run -Plocal

Everything works great except when I edit and save my java files (using intellij) nothing happens. The app doesn't reload at all. I have tried waiting and refreshing, but nothing has worked.

Any ideas?

Here is my web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
      http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
     version="2.5">
<display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>webProject</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring_config.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>webProject</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring_config.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

Answer 1

Well it was a simple fix. Ill share it if anyone has the same problem. The problem was Intellij was not compiling the java files.

To get this to work, I had to go Build->Compile... (ctrl+Shift+F9).

Or, you can go to File ->Settings->Compiler->make project automatically and Intellij will do it automatically.