Adding a static context to tomcat for static files like images, js, html etc.

There is no configuration available in the current tomcat maven plugin to add a static context. If you want to include static context you would need an external Apache server hosting your static files. Instead of setting the Apache I wanted to include the static context in my pom.xml. So, I modified the tomcat maven plugin to include the configurations for static context.
I have created a patch and will attach it here.