Run on server option not appearing in Eclipse

I'm learning SpringMVC framework and checked out a copy of their code: https://src.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/mvc-basic/trunk/ I can do maven build, install and everything. But on Eclipse, run on server option never appeared. I have tomcat server up and running, also got plugin for eclipse. Why run on server option is missing? This is a Ubuntu machine. When I tried the exact same thing on my Windows machine, everything was fine. It has the same version of eclipse and all sorts of plugins installed as the Ubuntu machine. I was able to launch it from Eclipse "run on server" option there.

Can someone help me to figure out why? Thanks.

Did you create a Web Project? If you right click on the project and go to Properties > Project Facets is Dynamic Web Module selected?

I had a similar issue. The Maven projects have different structure than "Dynamic Web Projects". Eclipse knows only how to deploy the Dynamic Web Projects (project structure used by Web Tools Platform).

In order to solve this and tell Eclipse how to deploy a "maven style" projects, you have to install the M2E Eclipse WTP plugin (I suppose you are already using the m2e plugin).

To install: Preferences->Maven->Discovery->Open Catalog and choose the WTP plugin.

After reinstalling, you will be able to "run on server" those projects which are maven web projects.

Hope that helps,

The topic is old but today I was facing the same problem, I imported a Maven project and when I tried adding to Tomcat it did not show the project. What worked for me:
Properties >> Project Facets and then check the options:
Dynamic Web Module + Java then click in apply. I hope it helps :)

For me worked: Right click on project > Properties > Project Faces > change Configuration from "custom" to "Default configuration for Apache Tomcat v7.0" > OK and then Run on Server option has appeared.

Follow the below steps:

1) Right click on your maven project.

2) Select Maven

3) Update Project

4) check the

• update project configuration from pom.xml

• refresh workspace resources from local filesystem.

• clean projects.

That's it.