Maven deploy to Tomcat

 So, I'm finally moving off of NetBeans and into IntelliJ IDEA. 

The two main reasons for that are:

1. NetBeans is really getting old any hardly any relevant updates
2. All my other IDEs (PyCharm, Android Studio) are built on it

I long ago moved my projects from ant based to maven, not I struggled to get the tomcat plugin to properly deploy to my local tomcat.

Well, the re-deploy didn't work to be honest.

Reason was, that the plugin does not add the "upgrade=true" to the upload URL, and I failed to manually tweak it.

Then I found that the plugin will honor a property called maven.tomcat.update and a quick test from a command line showed that this really works.

But then, how to get it into the IDE itself. 

Took me a while, and the best way is to add it to your POM under properties, like below:

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <jakartaee>10.0.0</jakartaee>
    <maven.tomcat.update>true</maven.tomcat.update>
</properties>

And voila, all uploads from the deploy target will now end with "&update=true".