I use jenkins to build my gwt app, now I want to run a tomcat:deploy on that built project so that it can deploy the built war to tomcat.
Problem is it insists on doing a package beforehand even though the package was just done.
This causes a gwt recompile - this takes a Very long time.
Is there a way I can invoke a deploy to tomcat with maven that will simply deploy an already existing war?
You can use deploy-only goal, which won't invoke the package build lifecycle.