Deploy Tomcat Task not working properly when adding as a Deployment Project.
Asked by Shashank Singh:

When I add a Deploy Tomcat Application task within a job in Build Project, It is working fine. But when I am adding the same task in Deployment Project,it fails.

What I observed that when 'Deploy Tomcat Application' task is added as Deployment project, it creates an empty folder with random numeric name,where it is unable to find desirable war and fails to deploy at tomcat. Please suggest a way.

For better understanding snnipet from log is given below:

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| 10-Nov-2017 17:15:28 | Build Deployment of 'ATG_1.1' on 'QA Environment' started building on agent Default Agent                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
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| 10-Nov-2017 17:15:29 | Build working directory is C:\\Users\\shashankshekhar_s\\bamboo-home\\xml-data\\build-dir\\7897089-8060929                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| 10-Nov-2017 17:15:29 | Executing build Deployment of 'ATG_1.1' on 'QA Environment' |----------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 10-Nov-2017 17:15:30 | Starting task 'Deploy at tomcat' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.bamboo-tomcat-plugin:deployAppTask'                                                              | | 10-Nov-2017 17:15:31 | Could not find war file at C:\\Users\\shashankshekhar_s\\bamboo-home\\xml-data\\build-dir\\7897089-8060929\\webapp\\target\\webapp.war. The application could not be deployed. | | 10-Nov-2017 17:15:31 | Finished task 'Deploy at tomcat' with result: Error                                                                                                                            | |


Answers:
author: robhit
body: Hi Shashank,

"Could not find war file at C:\\Users\\shashankshekhar_s\\bamboo-home\\xml-data\\build-dir\\7897089-8060929\\webapp\\target\\webapp.war. The application could not be deployed."

Are you downloading the artifact before invoking this task. from the logs it seems there is no such task to download the artifact.