Setup:
- To make the context root Create a file named ROOT.xml in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina// and add the following
Note: The above thing works in Tomcat 6. Check if we are using a different version of Tomcat. To investigate, we can use the maven tomcat plugin (http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-trunk/tomcat7-maven-plugin/usage.html)