Start and configure a WildFly server and deploy the app using wildfly-maven-plugin in 1 maven run

Question

I want to have a way to run maven so that it will:

• start a WildFly server instance in standalone mode (wildfly:run)
• deploy the hsqldb driver
• add a datasource
• deploy the application

The problem is that:

• wildfly:run blocks so no other maven goals can be executed
• the server instance must be running before it can be configured or an app can be deployed (daaa)

A possible work around that comes to my mind is:

• wildfly:start
• configure the server and deploy the app
• block until the user presses CTRL-C, is there a maven plugin that does that?

Answer 1

You can use the parameter beforeDeployment of the run goal (source):

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <beforeDeployment>
            <commands>
                <command>data-source add --jndi-name=java:jboss/datasources/OracleDS --name=testDB --connection-url=jdbc:h2:mem:test;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1 --driver-name=h2 --user-name=sa --password=sa</command>
            </commands>
        </beforeDeployment>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

If you need additional libraries for your database driver you can do something like that (source):

module add --name=org.postgres --resources=/tmp/postgresql-9.3-1101.jdbc41.jar --dependencies=javax.api,javax.transaction.api
/subsystem=datasources/jdbc-driver=postgres:add(driver-name="postgres",driver-module-name="org.postgres",driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver)