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From Maven, how do I run a class that lives under src/test/main ?

Answer 1

+1 A:

(...) I hope this is clearly explained.

Not bad but I can't reproduce. I created a project:

$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.stackoverflow \
                         -DartifactId=Q4060613 \
                         -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT \
                         -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart

Then cded into it and created a Dog class (under src/main/java):

$ cd Q4060613
$ cat > src/main/java/com/stackoverflow/Dog.java
package com.stackoverflow;

public class Dog {
    public String bark() {
        return "woof!";
    }
}

and created a Demo class (under src/test/java):

$ cat > src/test/java/com/stackoverflow/Demo.java 
package com.stackoverflow;

public class Demo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(new Dog().bark());
    }
}

After compiling the source code, running the command you provided works as expected:

$ mvn test
...
$ mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.stackoverflow.Demo" -Dexec.classpathScope="test"
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
...
[INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.2:java (default-cli) @ Q4060613 ---
woof!
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
...

Something else must be wrong.

Pascal Thivent 2010-10-31 05:50:11

Tried this and added the output to my original question.

woddle 2010-10-31 07:35:46

Answer 2

A:

Ok, spurred on by it working for everyone else I dug a little harder. The code wasn't reporting its problems very well and I was misreading the stacktrace.

It does:

FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream("lib/other-thing.jar");

which was failing. I symlinked trunk/src/main/assembly/lib/ into trunk/ and now it works. There might be a neater way to fix that then the symlink, though.

Thank you chaps.

woddle 2010-10-31 07:53:20

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