...It wires common development workflows—starting an embedded container, serving an exploded webapp, or running a WAR—into familiar Gradle tasks. Configuration options let you set context paths, ports, and container versions, and tune features like reloading to shorten the edit-refresh loop. Because it integrates with Gradle’s war and dependency management, your servlet/JSP app can be built and exercised without installing Tomcat separately. Teams often use it to spin up local environments that mirror production packaging while keeping feedback fast. ...