Running POM files from earlier versions of Rational® Integration Tester

POM files generated from earlier versions of Rational® Integration Tester cannot run with Rational® Integration Tester V9.2.1 or later. To use POM files generated from earlier versions of Rational® Integration Tester you must edit the existing POM file. POM files generated from Rational® Integration Tester V9.2.1.1 or later can run a Maven command to update the version property value. Alternatively, you can create a new POM file with the current release.

Running a Maven command

You must run the following Maven command if you want to update POM files generated from Rational® Integration Tester 9.2.1.1 or later.

mvn versions:update-property -Dproperty=it-plugin-version -f <name of pom file>

To back up the existing POM file, find the new version from Rational® Test Control Panel and update the version in the existing POM file.

The following example shows the Maven command to update the existing POM file named pom_tp52776.xml.

mvn versions:update-property -Dproperty=it-plugin-version -f pom_tp52776.xml

This command creates a backup of the file and updates the version in the pom_tp52776.xml from 1.920.0 to 1.921.1

Editing the existing POM file

For POM files generated from earlier versions of Rational® Integration Tester edit the earlier POM file by replacing the version number in the old POM file (for example, 1.911.1 for Rational® Test Control Panel version 9.1.1.1) with the version number from Rational® Test Control Panel V9.2.1 (for example, 1.921.0).

Note: You can find the version for the current release by generating a POM file and by looking at the version property of that generated POM file.

The following example shows a section of a new POM file generated from Rational® Integration Tester V9.2.1:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.hcl.products.test.it</groupId>
            <artifactId>it-plugin-boot</artifactId>
            <version>1.921.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.hcl.products.test.it</groupId>
                <artifactId>it-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.921.0</version>

The following example shows a section of an existing POM file that was generated from Rational® Integration Tester V9.2.0:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.hcl.products.test.it</groupId>
            <artifactId>it-plugin-boot</artifactId>
            <version>1.920.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.hcl.products.test.it</groupId>
                <artifactId>it-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.920.0</version>

Note the value of the version property (<version></version> in each of the POM files. To run the existing POM file with Rational® Integration Tester V9.2.1, you must edit the version of the existing POM file and change it from 1.920.0 to 1.921.0.

Note: If you generated a Failsafe plug-in POM file from an earlier version of Rational® Integration Tester, you must change the version number in three places.

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.hcl.products.test.it</groupId>
            <artifactId>it-plugin-boot</artifactId>
            <version>1.920.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.hcl.products.test.it</groupId>
                <artifactId>it-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.920.0</version>
...
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
...
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>com.hcl.products.test.it</groupId>
                        <artifactId>it-surefire-provider</artifactId>
                        <version>1.920.0</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>