maven 3 surefire and maven gwt exclude / include problems - maven

Question

I have a root pom configured with the maven-surefire-plugin and a gwt module pom configured with the gwt-maven-plugin.
After upgrading to Maven 3 I get strange errors.
The project is similar configured like described here: Separate GwtTest tests from standard unit tests
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<useSystemClassLoader>true</useSystemClassLoader>
<useManifestOnlyJar>false</useManifestOnlyJar>
<forkMode>always</forkMode>
<properties>
<property>
<name>usedefaultlisteners</name>
<value>false</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>listener</name>
<value>org.uncommons.reportng.HTMLReporter,org.uncommons.reportng.JUnitXMLReporter</value>
</property>
</properties>
<argLine>-server -Xmx8192m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024M -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled</argLine>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*GwtTest*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
AND
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.0</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>${gwt.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<configuration>
<modules>
<module>my.app.gwt</module>
</modules>
<runTarget>/</runTarget>
<extraJvmArgs>-Xss512m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=256M</extraJvmArgs>
<hostedWebapp>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</hostedWebapp>
<includes>**/*GwtTestSuite.java</includes>
<copyWebapp>true</copyWebapp>
<logLevel>INFO</logLevel>
<persistentunitcache>false</persistentunitcache>
<draftCompile>${gwt.draftCompile}</draftCompile>
<deploy>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/WEB-INF/deploy</deploy>
<disableCastChecking>true</disableCastChecking>
<mode>htmlunit</mode>
<skipTests>${skipGwtTests}</skipTests></configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>gwt-compile</id>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
<phase>compile</phase>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>gwt-test</id>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
<phase>test</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
It works with maven 2 but with maven 3 I get :
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:gwt-maven-plugin:2.5.0:test (gwt-test) on project my-webapp: Unable to parse configuration of mojo org.codehaus.mojo:gwt-maven-plugin:2.5.0:test: When configuring a basic element the configuration cannot contain any child elements. Configuration element 'excludes'. -> [Help 1]
It seems that the gwt plugin can't parse the hierarchical style of the surefire plugin.
It only compiles if I set all excludes/includes inside the gwt plugin as one comma separated string line, but that doesn't work for me, because I need to exclude the gwt tests globally, and include them locally.
The include/exclude sections get merged however, so that the two incompatible syntax definitions won't work together.
I hope somebody can give me a hint.

Answer 1

You can run your GWTTestCases using straight Maven Surefire, see this link.