OK well i managed to solve this issue. The key thing i realised is that if you want to control SOAPUI programmically within java you need to rely on numerous lib files which you can get from the lib directory of ready API, but they arent available in their entirety via any maven repository. Oh and By programmically , i mean having the ability to run SOAPUI within specific methods rather than just executing blindly via the POM file. This is important to me because I use BDD framework (cucumber) and so my test execution needs to occur within specific method annotations.
Now the easy solution would be not to use Maven and just kick off my tests directly using testNG or junit, therefore leveraging local the SOAPUI external lib files, however my overall testing approach/architecture is build on Maven, so I needed to use it.
To solve, I essentially copied all the SOAP lib files into the maven local repository and created a dependency on each one within the POM file. Considering there are around 300 lib files, this was only possible using a batch script.
Attached are two files which you guys can use to achieve same result.
create_soapui_repo.bat will look in C:\Program Files\SmartBear\ReadyAPI-2.2.0\lib and put each of these lib files in your local Maven repo. Review the code first then when happy, you can remove the .txt and run it.
POM.xml is a prebuilt POM file with all the dependencies for each jar file.
F.Y.I i built this quickly using string manipulation code so a few of the version references are out. However it will still work due to the folder structure matching in the repo.
