Running Payara Micro from Maven: "Deployed 0 archive(s)" - maven

Question

I am trying to set up an Eclipe MicroProfile Application with Maven. I generated the archive with the MicroProfile Starter at start.microprofile.io, which generates the following pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>de.javahippie.playground</groupId>
<artifactId>config_api</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.microprofile</groupId>
<artifactId>microprofile</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>payara-micro</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>fish.payara.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>payara-micro-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>bundle</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<payaraVersion>5.191</payaraVersion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>
I tried to start the application from Maven, as stated by the documentation: mvn package payara-micro:start, and Payara does not seem to find my packaged WAR file:
[2019-04-07T10:21:56.358+0200] [] [INFORMATION] [] [PayaraMicro] [tid: _ThreadID=1 _ThreadName=main] [timeMillis: 1554625316358] [levelValue: 800] Deployed 0 archive(s)
However, if I run this command from my projects' target folder, everything works as expected: java -jar config_api-microbundle.jar.
I would prefer bundling and starting the application with maven a lot, how can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Generated Payara Micro application from https://start.microprofile.io can be started using bundled Payara Micro uber jar with the following instructions :
The generation of the executable jar file can be performed by issuing the following command
mvn clean package
This will create an executable jar file demo-microbundle.jar within the target maven folder. This can be started by executing the following command
java -jar target/demo-microbundle.jar
To launch the test page, open your browser at the following URL
http://localhost:8080/index.html
And If you want to start Payara Micro instance from war, You may set deployWar property value to true:
<plugin>
<groupId>fish.payara.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>payara-micro-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0.4</version>
<configuration>
<payaraVersion>5.191</payaraVersion>
<deployWar>true</deployWar>
</configuration>
</plugin>