Maven and Exec: forking a process?

Question

I\'m trying to use Maven to start an application prior to running some integration tests on it. I\'m on Windows. My Maven plugin configuration looks like this:

Answer 1

For the record, a rather hackish solution is to use maven-antrun-plugin to call Ant, which is capable of spawning separate processes:

    maven-antrun-plugin
    1.6
    
        
            pre-integration-test
            
                
                    
                        
                        
                    
                
            
            
                run