Nuxeo Maven Plugin #1 - Run Nuxeo

Problem

As a developper implementing a customisation for Nuxeo Platform in a custom bundle, running my customisation is tedious: building the jar, deploying it, starting the server, there is no tooling for this beside nuxeocli which is not integrated to my IDE.

Context

I have a Studio project and a Maven simple module project in order to customise Nuxeo.

Source code in my repository is as below:

.
├── pom.xml
└── src
    └── main
        ├── java
        │   └── ...
        └── resources
            ├── META-INF
            │   └── MANIFEST.MF
            └── OSGI-INF
                └── ...

My pom.xml file contains the following:

• nuxeo-distribution as parent
• nuxeo-maven-plugin in the build section
• a studio project dependency

Solution

From my terminal, in order to run Nuxeo, I want to be able to do:

[~/workspace/nuxeo-addon] $ mvn nuxeo:run

This will start a Nuxeo containing my Studio package and my addon.
Output of console will be equivalent to Nuxeo's server.log file.
I can exit/stop this instance by typing CTRL+C.

I can also configure the plugin in order to start Nuxeo with different set up. For instance, I can choose several Nuxeo templates, change nuxeo.conf parameters...
These customisations can be done:

• in the <configuration> element of plugin
• through command line
• from a nuxeo.conf file