test-start-server.md

test-start-server

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Start a Liberty server in background. The server instance will be automatically created if it does not exist. test-start-server honors the skipTests, skipITs, and maven-test-skip properties. It also allows you to bypass automatically starting the server during the pre-integration-test phase with pom configuration or a Liberty-specific command line argument.

Additional Parameters

The following are the parameters supported by this goal in addition to the start-server, the common server parameters, and the common parameters.

Parameter	Description	Required
skipTestServer	Skip the start and stop of server when testing. The default value is false.	No

Example:

<project>
    ...
    <groupId>myGroup</groupId>
    <artifactId>myServer</artifactId>
    <!-- Create Liberty server assembly -->
    <packaging>liberty-assembly</packaging>
    ...
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <!-- Enable liberty-maven-plugin -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>net.wasdev.wlp.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>liberty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0</version>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <configuration>
                    <skipTestServer>true</skipTestServer>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    ...
</project>