title: maven war application setting up contextroot
body: <p>i am building a war application file using the below maven config, however when i start the application in tomcat the Context Root is set to "/CommerceApi-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/" </p>
  
  <p>I want this to be set to "/api",</p>
  
  <p>any ideas?, below is the pom.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;CommerceApi&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;CommerceApi&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;war&lt;/packaging&gt;
    &lt;build&gt;
      &lt;sourceDirectory&gt;src&lt;/sourceDirectory&gt;
      &lt;resources&gt;
        &lt;resource&gt;
          &lt;directory&gt;src&lt;/directory&gt;
          &lt;excludes&gt;
            &lt;exclude&gt;**/*.java&lt;/exclude&gt;
          &lt;/excludes&gt;
        &lt;/resource&gt;
      &lt;/resources&gt;
      &lt;plugins&gt;
        &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;3.3&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;source&gt;1.6&lt;/source&gt;
            &lt;target&gt;1.6&lt;/target&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;
        &lt;/plugin&gt;
        &lt;plugin&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-war-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;2.6&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;warSourceDirectory&gt;WebContent&lt;/warSourceDirectory&gt;
            &lt;failOnMissingWebXml&gt;false&lt;/failOnMissingWebXml&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;
        &lt;/plugin&gt;
      &lt;/plugins&gt;
    &lt;/build&gt;
     &lt;dependencies&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.codehaus.jackson&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;jackson-mapper-asl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;1.9.13&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;CommerceApiCommon&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;CommerceApiCommon&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>