h2-maven-plugin

Introduction

A maven plugin to start and stop an h2 instance. It creates a tcp based instance which can be configured using args.

Configuration

Add the following to your pom.xml under build->plugins tag.

::::xml
<build>
    ...
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>net.xeric.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
           <configuration>
                <args>
                    <arg>-tcp</arg>
                    <arg>-tcpAllowOthers</arg>
                    <arg>-tcpPort</arg>
                    <arg>5555</arg>
                </args>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>h2-start</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
                <execution>
                    <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>h2-stop</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
<build>        
<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
        <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

If phases are not specified, the default phases are chosen.

Goals

h2-start

Starts an h2 instance. This goal is bound to pre-integration-test phase by default.

h2-stop

Stops the h2 instance started by h2-start goal. This goal is bound to post-integration-test by default.

help

Displays help.

Example

Checkout a simple example in the test folder.

You can also run the goals from command line using the h2 prefix

mvn h2:h2-start

e.g. if you want to start a h2 instance right before running jetty server, you can run it as

mvn h2:h2-start jetty:run

(it assumes you have also included maven-jetty-plugin in your pom.xml)

References

1. Writing a custom plugin from Maven: The complete reference.
2. H2 Tutorial