How to: database versioning with maven2?

Question

I am finding any maven plugin for versioning database changes.

Answer 1

There are a few plugins that offer some support for this task:

• Maven LiquiBase Plugin
• Maven Database Migration Plugin
• DbMaintain Maven Plugin (a plugin for DbMaintain, the famous tool from Unitils)

I don't have much experience with them, we currently use a custom tool to apply our change scripts. But the Maven Database Migration Plugin is a serious candidate to replace it. LiquiBase is pretty famous but also different, changes are described in a generic XML format. About DbMaintain, it works well (in Unitils) but I've never tested the wrapper plugin mentioned above.