Having servers at development time is pain. You need tooling to make it smooth. Fortunately, Terracotta has the tc-maven plugin for this purpose.

Integration Testing with Maven

To start and stop the server pre and post integration tests, add the following to your pom.xml:

<pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>terracotta-snapshots</id>
            <url>http://www.terracotta.org/download/reflector/maven2</url>
            <releases>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>
 

    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.terracotta.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>tc-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.5.1</version>
        <executions>
            <execution>
                <id>run-integration</id>
                <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                <goals>
                    <goal>run-integration</goal>
                </goals>
            </execution>
            <execution>
                <id>terminate-integration</id>
                <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                <goals>
                    <goal>terminate-integration</goal>
                </goals>
            </execution>
        </executions>
    </plugin>


 

Interactive Use

Interactively, with the pom configured, it is just

mvn tc:start to start

and mvn tc:stop to stop