DynamoDB Maven Plugin

AWS recently announced a tool, DynamoDB Local, for testing applications based on DynamoDB. The tool is a standalone Java application, shipped by Amazon in form of a tar.gz archive. Inside the archive there is a JAR file and a collection of supplementary shared libraries for different platforms.

The tool starts as a standalone web server and responds to AWS SDK requests through HTTP RESTful API similar to the one provided by DynamoDB. It's a very handy instrument for unit testing, but it needs additional wrapping in order to become useful in Maven builds.

In Maven build, we want this fake DynamoDB server to start automatically, right before JUnit runs all unit/integration tests. And we want to shut it down right after the tests are finished.

This plugin does exactly that, by starting DynamoDB Local in pre-integration-test phase and shutting it down in post-integration-test.

Usage page explains how to get it up and running.

The plugin was tested with Maven 3.0.5 and 3.1.0 on:

• Mac OS X 10.8.5
• Windows 7 SP 1
• Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Desktop

If you use it somewhere else and it works for you, please let us know and we'll add your platform to this list. If you have problems or suggestions, please submit them as issues to Github.