= Maven Plugins
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Since Artemis 1.1.0 Artemis provides the possibility of using Maven Plugins to manage the life cycle of servers.
== When to use it
These Maven plugins were initially created to manage server instances across our examples.
They can create a server, start, and do any CLI operation over servers.
You could for example use these maven plugins on your testsuite or deployment automation.
== Goals
There are three goals that you can use
create::
This will create a server accordingly to your arguments.
You can do some extra tricks here such as installing extra libraries for external modules.
cli::
This will perform any CLI operation.
This is basically a maven expression of the CLI classes
runClient::
This is a simple wrapper around classes implementing a static main call.
Notice that this won't spawn a new VM or new Thread.
== Declaration
On your pom, use the plugins section:
[,xml]
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org.apache.activemq
artemis-maven-plugin
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== create goal
I won't detail every operation of the create plugin here, but I will try to describe the main parameters:
|===
| Name | Description
| configuration
| A place that will hold any file to replace on the configuration.
For instance if you are providing your own broker.xml.
Default is "$\{basedir}/target/classes/activemq/server0"
| home
| The location where you downloaded and installed artemis.
Default is "${activemq.basedir}"
| alternateHome
| This is used case you have two possible locations for your home (e.g. one under compile and one under production
| instance
| Where the server is going to be installed.
Default is "$\{basedir}/target/server0"
| liblist[]
| A list of libraries to be installed under ./lib.
ex: "org.jgroups:jgroups:3.6.0.Final"
|===
Example:
[,xml]
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create
create
${noServer}
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== cli goal
Some properties for the CLI
|===
| Name | Description
| configuration
| A place that will hold any file to replace on the configuration.
For instance if you are providing your own broker.xml.
Default is "$\{basedir}/target/classes/activemq/server0"
| home
| The location where you downloaded and installed artemis.
Default is "${activemq.basedir}"
| alternateHome
| This is used case you have two possible locations for your home (e.g. one under compile and one under production
| instance
| Where the server is going to be installed.
Default is "$\{basedir}/target/server0"
|===
Similarly to the create plugin, the artemis exampels are using the cli plugin.
Look at them for concrete examples.
Example:
[,xml]
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start
cli
true
${noServer}
tcp://localhost:61616
run
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=== runClient goal
This is a simple solution for running classes implementing the main method.
|===
| Name | Description
| clientClass
| A class implement a static void main(String arg[])
| args
| A string array of arguments passed to the method
|===
Example:
[,xml]
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runClient
runClient
org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms.example.QueueExample
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=== Complete example
The following example is a copy of the /examples/features/standard/queue example.
You may refer to it directly under the examples directory tree.
[,xml]
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4.0.0
org.apache.activemq.examples.broker
jms-examples
1.1.0
queue
jar
ActiveMQ Artemis JMS Queue Example
${project.basedir}/../../../..
org.apache.activemq
artemis-jms-client
${project.version}
org.apache.activemq
artemis-maven-plugin
create
create
${noServer}
start
cli
true
${noServer}
tcp://localhost:61616
run
runClient
runClient
org.apache.activemq.artemis.jms.example.QueueExample
stop
cli
${noServer}
stop
org.apache.activemq.examples.broker
queue
${project.version}
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