Running Cargo From Maven antrun Plugin - maven

Question

I have a maven (multi-module) project creating some WAR and EAR files for JBoss AS 7.1.x.
For one purpose, I need to deploy one generated EAR file of one module to a fresh JBoss instance and run it, call some REST web service calls against it and stop JBoss. Then I need to package the results of these calls that were written to the database.
Currently, I am trying to use CARGO and the maven ant run plugin to perform this task.
Unfortunately, I cannot get the three (maven, ant run and CARGO) to play together. I don't have the uberjar that is used in the ant examples of cargo. How can I configure the ant run task so that the cargo ant task can create, start, deploy my JBoss? Ideally the one unpacked and configured by the cargo-maven2-plugin in another phase?
Or, is there a better way to achieve my goal of creating the database?
I cannot really use the integration-test phase, as it is executed after the package phase. So, I plan to do it all in compile phase using ant run.
To clarify again:
I need to do the following: start JBoss; deploy a WAR; wait until the startup of the WAR is complete; deploy an EAR file; wait until the EAR has initialized it's database; Call some web services in the implemented by the EAR; stop JBoss; package the database.
All these steps need to be strictly sequential.

Answer 1

The following part gives you an impression how to do that. You must change the details. In the given case i use a Tomcat. This will download the Tomcat archive uncompress and install Tomcat locally...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<wait>false</wait>
<container>
<containerId>tomcat${tomcat.major}x</containerId>
<zipUrlInstaller>
<url>http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-${tomcat.major}/v${tomcat.version}/bin/apache-tomcat-${tomcat.version}.tar.gz</url>
<extractDir>${project.build.directory}/extract/</extractDir>
<downloadDir>${project.build.directory}/download/</downloadDir>
</zipUrlInstaller>
<output>${project.build.directory}/tomcat${tomcat.major}x.log</output>
<log>${project.build.directory}/cargo.log</log>
</container>
<configuration>
<home>${project.build.directory}/tomcat-${tomcat.version}/container</home>
<properties>
<cargo.logging>high</cargo.logging>
<cargo.servlet.port>9080</cargo.servlet.port>
<cargo.tomcat.ajp.port>9008</cargo.tomcat.ajp.port>
</properties>
</configuration>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-container</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>start</goal>
<goal>deploy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<deployer>
<deployables>
<deployable>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>mod-war</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<pingURL>http://localhost:9080/mod-war</pingURL>
<pingTimeout>30000</pingTimeout>
<properties>
<context>mod-war</context>
</properties>
</deployable>
</deployables>
</deployer>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>stop-container</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>