Hi Mark, have you tried the "spawn"attribute of the Ant <exec> task?
Cheers, Siegfried Goeschl gags_78 wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to introduce automated integration testing for our > application. I successfully integrated the cargo plugin to get our product > deployed and started within a fresh jboss installation as part of > pre-integration-test phase. Alas in order for our integration tests to work > we need to connect to an external 3rd party service that itself needs to be > running before the jboss server tries to boot. > > The following is the pom snippet I was hoping to use to perform this task. > > > <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> > <executions> > <execution> > <phase>process-test-resources</phase> > <goals> > <goal>run</goal> > </goals> > <configuration> > <tasks> > <exec executable="startExternalService.cmd"/> > </tasks> > </configuration> > > </execution> > </executions> > > > Alas the maven process seems to hang until the external process is exited > while I need it to continue running in the background to allow my jboss > server to come up. > I had orginally encountered the same problem with the Jboss server as > obviously you need to kick it off and then once it's up you would run the > tests. Again the mvn process would just hang there. then I stumbled across > cargo and they've a very handy element called <wait>false</wait> that can be > introduced to the cargo plugin's configuration element and it prevents maven > from blocking on the jboss server. This allows you to kick off other > executions but only within the same phase it seems. > > I think this problem may be associated solely with windows as I believe > though I haven't tested it that the ampersand '&' in linux will instruct the > process to run in the background allowing the maven process to continue. > > Basically if anyone has managed to leave a process running on a windows > machine detached from the maven process and continue with the build I'd love > the heads up on how to. > > Thanks, > Mark. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
