Starting an H2 Database Server from Maven?

Question

Suppose I want to create and use an H2 database for my integration tests.

Maven has a command to run tests: mvn test.

Is there a way to tell maven t

Answer 1

I was able to get it to work without using an external server just by adding the dependency to H2 via Maven and then using this bean:

Then again, this required that I use a file-based DB instead of in-memory. But it does the trick.