How can I set a environment variables in Maven per run? - maven

Question

In my project, we've created a Maven module to get the specific JBoss AS and unpacked.
Then all the test cases can be run under this Jboss AS as embedded container.
We're using jboss-ejb3-embedded-standalone to call the embedded container, however, it just find the JBOSS_HOME from environment variables and use that one to run.
Thus we have to update the JBOSS_HOME per mvn install.
I tried to do this in maven by introduce exec-maven-plugin as below:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<configuration>
<executable>env</executable>
<environmentVariables>
<JBOSS_HOME>
C:/Sample/embedded-container/jboss-${version.org.jboss.jbossas}
</JBOSS_HOME>
</environmentVariables>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>resetJbossHome</id>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
In the output of console, I can see
[INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:exec (resetJbossHome) # test-embedded ---
....
JBOSS_HOME=C:/Sample/embedded-container/jboss-6.1.0.Final
....
But when launching JBOSS, it's still running the one with origin JBOSS_HOME set.
Besides, I've tried using maven-antrun-plugin too.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copyRelease</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<exec executable="env">
<env key="JBOSS_HOME" value="C:/Sample/embedded-container/jboss-${version.org.jboss.jbossas}"/>
</exec>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
It turns out the same.
Am I wrong on the configuration or there're some better way?

Answer 1

Take a look at the Maven profiles.
You can define one profile for testing, one for production, with different properties, such as
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>test</id>
<jboss.home>PATH TO JBOSS TEST INSTANCE</jboss.home>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>prod</id>
<jboss.home>PATH TO JBOSS PROD INSTANCE</jboss.home>
</profile>
</profiles>
And in your exec plugin :
<environmentVariables>
<JBOSS_HOME>
${jboss.home}
</JBOSS_HOME>
</environmentVariables>