Github user jwonders commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-rya/pull/159
I described some options in the Jira issue, and the maven plugin was one.
Configurability was not a big driver of the decision. The downside of the
plugin approach is that IDEs do not by default know to use the plugin to start
and stop the minicluster. I think it is possible to configure the major ones
to run maven goals before and after tests, but it seems like more work for the
developer. I usually do not like to use singletons, but I think this is a rare
situation where a singleton is appropriate. Note, that it would be possible to
introduce a service loading layer to make a choice at runtime between the maven
plugin, a lazy-singleton, and even a real accumulo cluster. This introduces
more complexity though so I went with what I deemed to be the simplest approach
for both implementation and developer.
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