Getting started with JEE 6, Glassfish and Maven

Getting started with JEE 6, Glassfish and Maven

I'm ramping back up on JEE development, so I'm catching up with the latest stuff in JEE 6. To get started I've created a basic Maven POM file for getting me going. The nice thing about this is that the POM will start the glassfish server to execute the tests and the shut it down when they are completed. It can also start up a glassfish instance on the command line with

mvn embedded-glassfish:run

.

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>bms</groupId>
    <artifactId>jee-testing</artifactId>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>jee-testing Maven Webapp</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.7</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
            <version>6.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-embedded-glassfish-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <goalPrefix>embedded-glassfish</goalPrefix>
                    <app>${basedir}/target/${project.artifactId}</app>
                    <port>8080</port>
                    <contextRoot>${project.artifactId}</contextRoot>
                    <autoDelete>true</autoDelete>
                </configuration>
                <!-- Configure glassfish for executing tests -->
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>start-glassfish</id>
                        <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>start</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>glassfish-deploy</id>
                        <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>deploy</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>glassfish-undeploy</id>
                        <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>undeploy</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>stop-glassfish</id>
                        <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>stop</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>maven2.java.net</id>
            <name>Java.net Repository for Maven 2</name>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/glassfish</url>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>
</project>