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

In my project, for unit testing, I asked Spring to handle this database creation and initialization. As stated in the H2 documentation, you can create a bean for that:

You simply need to start the Spring context with this configuration when you start your unit tests.