How to start HSQLDB with Maven

To start HSQLDB with maven you have to add HSQLDB dependancy to your pom.xml file.

<dependency>
 <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
 <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
 <version>2.0.0</version>
 <scope>runtime</scope>
 </dependency>

After this go to command line and start this command:

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=org.hsqldb.Server -D"exec.args=-database.0 file:target/data/caveat-emptor"

• exec:java will start JVM
• -D is telling that given parameter is directly send to JVM (it is not for MVN)
• exec.mainClass will start main method from class org.hsqldb.Server
• exec.args will send given arguments to main method of Server class