start jetty-maven-plugin than execute exec-maven-plugin

Question

Could anyone help me with this!!

My pom.xml

    "start the jetty server
<plugin>
                <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
                <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>8.1.14.v20131031</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>
                                test
                        </phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>start</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>

                </executions>
                <configuration>
                    <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
                    <connectors>
                        <connector implementation="org.eclipse.jetty.server.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
                            <port>3663</port>
                            <maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime>
                        </connector>
                    </connectors>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

" run the jasmine unit tests on the jetty server

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.2.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>PhantomJS Unit Testing</id>
                        <phase>test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>exec</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <configuration>

                    <executable>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/test/phantomjs_framework/phantomjs.exe</executable>

                    <workingDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/test/phantomjs_framework</workingDirectory>

                    <arguments>
                        <!-- <argument>run_jasmine.js</argument> -->
                        <argument>phantomjs_jasminexml_runner.js</argument>
                        <argument>http://localhost:3663/test/phantomjs_framework/test_runner.html</argument>
                        <argument>${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports</argument>
                    </arguments>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

The idea is to launch the jetty server using jetty-maven-plugin than execute the jasmine tests using exec-maven-plugin.

Currently i have to do the following:

run "jetty:run" to start the jetty server
run "mvn test" to run the tests

it works fine!!

BUT:

Well, i'm hoping to be able to only run "mvn test" and the jetty server will automatically start, currently it does not happen and the tests fails i have to run "jetty:run" manually first

I went back and forth and couldn't get it to work

Any help please!! Thank you. Kais.

I would suggest to start the jetty server in the pre-integration-test phase and run the integration tests via exec-maven-plugin in the integration-test phase and stop the jetty server in the post-integration-test phase which means you have to bind it appropriately. And than you can call mvn verify. And of course don't try to do that in your war module directory. Best is to create a separate integration test module which contains the appropriate configuration. — khmarbaise

carlspring carlspring · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-20T12:09:13

From what I can tell you're not using this is an integration test, so invoke the jetty-maven-plugin in the test-compile phase instead.

Alternatively, set this up in the pre-integration-test phase, as suggested by Karl-Heinz and then have your tests executed with the failsafe-maven-plugin in the integration-test phase.

start jetty-maven-plugin than execute exec-maven-plugin

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