Question

I have the following bat script:

@echo off
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_32
set JRE_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_32\jre
set Path=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%Path%

cd C:\project
mvn validate compile package db-migration:migrate -DskipTests
REM script exits here, the second line never been executed
java  -jar target/compiled_tar.jar

The last line never been executed. The “mvn…” is successfully done, the compiled_tar.jar is created, the output is:

[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS

If I insert the PAUSE command between last and previous lines the PAUSE also never been occurred. Why?

Answer 1

mvn is itself a .bat file, so (for compatibility with MS-DOS 1.0) Windows will stop executing your batch file. To fix this, use the call command:

call mvn validate compile package db-migration:migrate -DskipTests