tomcatRunWar does not take over changes about gradle-tomcat-plugin

[bmuschko]

You will probably have to run gradle compileJava tomcatRunWar. The task tomcatRunWar does not automatically recompile changed Java classes.

[bmuschko]

Did that answer your question or do we need to dig deeper?

[sprobst]

No, this did not solve my problem. However, the compileJava task is executed. I can see it in the list of executed targets. When I deploy the newly created WAR-File to a standalone Tomcat, changes can be seen.
I can see the changes in the embedded tomcat when I delete the folder of the extracted WAR. As long as this folder exists, no changes are visible. The WAR is extracted within my project folder.

Edit:
It works with tomcatRun task.

[bmuschko]

I assume you were using Tomcat 6 with the task tomcatRunWar. The implementation for version 6 unpacked the WAR by default which led to the fact that subsequent task runs didn't pick up the changes. I set the property unpackWar to false. This was already the case for Tomcat 7.