The Maven ITBlast Plugin allows you to run your integration tests on multiple application servers in one build using the Cargo and Surefire Maven 2 plugins internally. The motivations for this plugin were to eliminate hundreds of POM XML for integration tests and add a few features like multiple container runs.

The plugin works by iterating through the configured containers and using the Maven 2 Cargo Plugin and the Maven 2 Surefire plugin to start/stop the container and run the tests, respectively. Since the same integration tests will be ran multiple times, it also renames the surefire reports to include the container ID (requires JUnit 3-compatible reports).

You can download the jars, source, and javadocs from the Maven 2 repository:
bq. http://twdata-m2-repository.googlecode.com/svn/org/twdata/maven/maven-itblast-plugin/

This example shows how integration tests and unit tests can sit side-by-side by placing integration tests in packages starting with “it.”. It also executes the integration tests against Tomcat 5.x, Jetty 6.x, JBoss 4.2.x, and Resin 3.×. This configuration would be placed in your project’s pom.xml file. As of 0.3, these are the only containers supported.

    <build>
    	<plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.twdata.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-itblast-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.5</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>execute</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <containers>tomcat5x,jetty6x,jboss42x,resin3x</containers>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>it/**</exclude>
                        <exclude>**/*$*</exclude>
                    </excludes>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
    	</plugins>
    </build>

Add this to your pom.xml:

    

        

            twdata-m2-repository

            twdata.org Maven 2 Repository

            http://twdata-m2-repository.googlecode.com/svn/