On 3 May 2012 10:04, Radim Kolar <h...@filez.com> wrote: > >> I'd like to release version 1.1.0-1 of Mojo's Cassandra Maven Plugin > > > What is this plugin supposed to do? >
Mojo's Cassandra Plugin is used when you want to control a test instance of Apache Cassandra from within your Apache Maven build. Useful for integration testing / webapp development as the developer gets their own test instance and doesn't have to have installed anything on their machine to get it. Have a look at the plugin's website, specifically: http://mojo.codehaus.org/cassandra-maven-plugin/examples/developing-webapp.html and http://mojo.codehaus.org/cassandra-maven-plugin/examples/integration-tests.html For a lot of testing strategies, people may fire up cassandra instances directly from the JUnit test case so that tests can be run via the IDE, but for more complex testing where you need more infra set-up this plugin starts to really shine... oh and live webapp development like "mvn cassandra:run jetty:run" where you don't have a unit test in scope to start up cassandra HTH
