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

you can create 2 small classes with main methods that start and stop the database. the idea is to run the StartServer class before the integration tests are run and then class StopServer after the tests have run.

you should do the same for your DB server as described somewhere in this document (description is for starting and stopping Jetty in integration tests)

in your pom.xml you should define the maven-exec-plugin to run the exec:java goal and create 2 executions (1 for calling StartServer and 1 for StopServer):

  org.codehaus.mojo
  exec-maven-plugin
  1.1.1
  
    
      
      start
      pre-integration-test
      
        java
      
      
        com.foo.StartServer
      
     
     
      
      stop
      post-integration-test
      
        java
      
      
        com.foo.StopServer
      
     
   
 

hope that's what you want