I have found that the current release 2.2 is not working for me, and there are two issues that have been fixed in trunk development, that fixes the problems I encounter. I have built the trunk version (2.3-SNAPSHOT) plugin locally, and that works fine for me.
I prefer not to use SNAPSHOT, and I would not like to do a local fork of the project. Has anyone knowledge of the upcoming release plan for the Tomcat Maven Plugin project?