Hi Siegfried,
You sir, are what we commonly refer to in Ireland as a Legend!!! A
total ledgebox!! I cannot thank you enough. That has made my day and works a
charm. I thank you kindly.
Regards,
Mark.
Siegfried Goeschl wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>
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