Minimal Maven kickstart project

A minimal project using a maven configuration can be found on git hub. It is recommended that you get the project from there as a kickstart.

... the interesting bits of the pom are:

The ebean dependency

<dependency>
<groupId>org.avaje<groupId>
<artifactId>ebean<artifactId>
<version>2.7.1<version>
<dependency>

useSystemClassloader

For ebean to find the classes during maven testing we need to make sure we use the useSystemClassloader = false.

 <plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins<groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin<artifactId>
<configuration>
<useSystemClassLoader>false</useSystemClassLoader>
<configuration>
<plugin> 

Enhance the entity beans

You have enhance the entity beans as part of the build. To do so use the antrun plugin.

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins<groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin<artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>compile<id>
<phase>process-ebean-enhancement<phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<property name="compile_classpath" refid="maven.compile.classpath" />
<echo
message="Ebean enhancing test classes debug level -----------------------------------" />
<echo message="Classpath: ${compile_classpath}" />
<taskdef name="ebeanEnhance"
classname="com.avaje.ebean.enhance.ant.AntEnhanceTask"
classpath="${compile_classpath}" />
<ebeanEnhance classSource="${project.build.testOutputDirectory}"
packages="org.avaje.demo.test.model.**" transformArgs="debug=1" />
<tasks>
<encoding>UTF-8<encoding>
<configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run<goal>
<goals>
<execution>
<executions>
<plugin>

Unit tests not finding entities

If you find that maven is not finding your entity classes when running unit tests it is likely as issue with the classpath.

Check the logs to see if you see something like:

Maven by default runs with it's own classpath magic and we need to turn that off.

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins<groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin<artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <useSystemClassLoader>false<useSystemClassLoader>
                <configuration>
            <plugin>