How to change context root of a dynamic web project in Eclipse?

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I developed a dynamic web project in Eclipse.
I can access the app through my browser using the following URL: 

http://localhost:8080/MyDynamicWebApp

I want to change the access URL to:

http://localhost:8080/app

To do so, I changed the context root from the project “Properties | Web Project Settings | Context Root”.
However, the web app still has the same access URL. I have re-deployed the application on Tomcat and re-started the Tomcat, but the access URL is the same as earlier.

I found that there was no server.xml file attached with the WAR file. Without the server.xml file attached, how is the Tomcat determining that the context root of my web app is /MyDynamicWebApp and allowing me to access the application through this context root URL?

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