title: Tomcat binary distribution zip as maven artifact
body: <p>Is there a publicly available maven repository that hosts the Apache Tomcat binary distribution ZIPs as maven artifacts (I mean the file that can be downloaded via <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org" rel="noreferrer">http://tomcat.apache.org</a>, e.g. <a href="http://mirror.serversupportforum.de/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.28/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.28.zip" rel="noreferrer">http://mirror.serversupportforum.de/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.28/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.28.zip</a>)?</p>
  
  <p>Currently I download these distribution zips manually and put them into my Nexus repo, but I'd find it more elegant if there was such a repo that I just could add to my POMs. Does anybody else need the Tomcat distribution ZIPs within their maven build, how do you cope with this issue?</p>