Starting the WAR Artifact of a Dependency in the maven-jetty-plugin

pom-external-war.xml

<plugin>
        <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>6.1.26</version>
        <configuration>
                <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
                <stopKey>foo</stopKey>
                <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
		<contextPath>/</contextPath>
            	<webApp>
               		/your/path/to/the/external.war
            	</webApp>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
                <execution>
                        <id>start-jetty</id>
                        <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                                <goal>deploy-war</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                                <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
                                <daemon>true</daemon>
                        </configuration>
                </execution>
                <execution>
                        <id>stop-jetty</id>
                        <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                                <goal>stop</goal>
                        </goals>
                </execution>
        </executions>
</plugin>

pom-integration-test.xml

<plugin>
        <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>6.1.26</version>
        <configuration>
                <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
                <stopKey>foo</stopKey>
                <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
                <execution>
                        <id>start-jetty</id>
                        <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                                <goal>run</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                                <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
                                <daemon>true</daemon>
                        </configuration>
                </execution>
                <execution>
                        <id>stop-jetty</id>
                        <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                                <goal>stop</goal>
                        </goals>
                </execution>
        </executions>
</plugin>

pom-xml

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<executions>
    <execution>
        <id>copy-war-to-lib-folder</id>
        <phase>process-sources</phase>
        <goals>
            <goal>copy</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
            <artifactItems>
                <artifactItem>
                    <groupId>external.war.group</groupId>
                    <artifactId>external-war-artifact</artifactId>
                    <version>LATEST</version>
                    <type>war</type>
                    <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                    <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                    <destFileName>${renamed.war}</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
            </artifactItems>
        </configuration>
    </execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<version>6.1.26</version>
<configuration>
        <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
        <stopKey>foo</stopKey>
        <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
	<contextPath>/</contextPath>
    	<webApp>
       		${project.build.directory}/lib/${renamed.war}
    	</webApp>
	<systemPropertiesFile>${project.build.testOutputDirectory}/some-existing.properties</systemPropertiesFile>
</configuration>
<executions>
        <execution>
                <id>start-jetty</id>
                <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
                <goals>
                        <goal>deploy-war</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                        <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds>
                        <daemon>true</daemon>
                </configuration>
        </execution>
        <execution>
                <id>stop-jetty</id>
                <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                <goals>
                        <goal>stop</goal>
                </goals>
        </execution>
</executions>
</plugin>