Question

We have our project build using maven. We try to run our unit test cases in maven build itself and for doing that we need to add DB2 driver jar in the dependency of all the sub projects.

Instead of doing that, we need a solution to specify the absolute path of the jar file as a mvn command line argument to use it in the running of unit test cases.

This is because the driver jar is available in our app server lib folder and we don’t want to specify it in the dependencies of our projects.

Couldn’t find a suitable solution googling it, hence requesting for an expert solution here.

Any workaround would be of greater help.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The usual way would be to add a dependency to the database driver and limit the dependency to testing (test scope). So the library is available for unit tests but will not deployed and jar’ed.

Practically spoken, I’d create a maven artifact for this driver (just a basic POM file) and place it on the build servers maven repository (or the nexus, if you use it for the projects).