I have used https://github.com/jsimone/webapp-runner in several projects now, and I find it really useful.
You can start a Tomcat instance as simple as this:
java -jar target/webapp-runner.jar target/adocblog.war
However if you need to run it with extra classpath entries, then you
would need to use the -cp
instead of -jar
Java option. Like this:
java -cp "target/extra-classes:target/webapp-runner.jar" webapp.runner.launch.Main target/adocblog.war