Test Automation: Maven with custom listener

i'm assuming that the *-listeners.xml file needs to be placed under some directory for the maven plugin to pick it up ?

Yes, but i dont know as much as you bout know.

I can give you the direct solution but it will be more effective to give you for my heuristic search pattern reusable many times

According to you the *-listener.xml have to be in the /bin/listeners. But how Soapui can know that ? Black Magic >:D , hard coded in the java code or a parameter ?

We know that the Gui one is launched by a script adding differents variables.
So let see the content of soapui.bat

if "%SOAPUI_HOME%" == "" goto START
    set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dsoapui.ext.libraries="%SOAPUI_HOME%ext"
    set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Dsoapui.ext.listeners="%SOAPUI_HOME%listeners"

Youpi ! Dsoapui.ext.listeners is a parameter.

Just to be sure let apply a double check with Google Source Code

By the way, this tool is most effective tool to search for real example and able to apply easily my favourite copy/paste pattern )

Back to Soapui, the response is
here :

 System.getProperty( "soapui.ext.listeners" );

Now we have to find a way to tell to maven eviware plugin to apply the mirror instruction:

 System.setProperty("soapui.ext.listeners", myValue)

portion of code.
I havent test ot but this may make it.

... <configuration> <soapuiProperties> <property> <name>soapui.ext.listeners</name> <value>${project.build.testOutputDirectory}/soapui/myListener.xml</value> </property> </soapuiProperties>

And how to be sure it will loaded ? maybe like usual they have a log added
And the answer is yes according to this line of code. You will read on the console :

"Adding listeners from your_Path_Specify_inMaven

Omar elmandour