Maven Embedded Glassfish plugin

Question

I cannot seem to get the Maven Glassfish plugin working for the life of me:

<project>
  ...
  <pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <id>glassfish-repository</id>
      <name>Java.net Repository for Glassfish</name>
      <url>http://download.java.net/maven/glassfish</url>
      <layout>default</layout>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
        <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
      </snapshots>
    </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0</version>

        <configuration>
          <goalPrefix>glassfish</goalPrefix>
          <app>${artifactId}.war</app>
          <contextRoot>${context.root}</contextRoot>
          <port>${http.port}</port>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>  
</project>

When I run mvn glassfish:run, it is looking for a different plugin and cannot find it:

[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-glassfish-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You're not invoking the right plugin. It should be:

mvn embedded-glassfish:run

Actually, I'm using it like this: (with the same plugin repository you declared):

<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0</version>
    <configuration>
      <goalPrefix>glassfish</goalPrefix>
      <app>target/test.war</app>
      <port>8080</port>
      <contextRoot>test</contextRoot>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <goals>
         <goal>run</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>
</plugins>

Update: Just in case, the fully qualified name of this plugin would be:

mvn org.glassfish:maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin:3.0:run

But using the short name works for me.

Answer 2

@Walter White (can't/don't know how to reply to your comment so I'm answering instead): I've read that scattered WAR's are not fully supported by embedded GlassFish v3.

Personally I'm anxiously awaiting v3.1 with Timer and MessageDriven support. Hopefully web service support will be included as well. Does anybody happen to have a clue about an ETA for v3.1?

PS: mvn org.glassfish:maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin:3.0:run works for me. Will hook it up into a proper maven integration-test life cycle now.

Answer 3

This problem outcome from fact that 2 differnt maven-glassfish plugins exist with the same name. Try to use

mvn org.glassfish:maven-glassfish-plugin:run

Detailed explanatation of this problem you can find here.

Answer 4

see on github working example

mvn package embedded-glassfish:run

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
        <version>7.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.embedded</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.2.2</version>
            <configuration>
                <app>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</app>
                <port>8080</port>
                <contextRoot>${project.artifactId}</contextRoot>
            </configuration>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.glassfish.main</groupId>
                    <artifactId>simple-glassfish-api</artifactId>
                    <version>4.0-b79</version>
                </dependency>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.glassfish.main.extras</groupId>
                    <artifactId>glassfish-embedded-all</artifactId>
                    <version>4.0-b83</version>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.8</source>
                <target>1.8</target>
                <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>

</build>
<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>maven.java.net</id>
        <name>Java.net Repository for Maven</name>
        <url>https://maven.java.net/content/groups/promoted/</url>
    </pluginRepository>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
        <name>Java.net Repository for Maven</name>
        <url>http://download.java.net/maven/glassfish/</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>