Relative path for surefire testsof multi-module project

[Marco Beelen <MB...@iprofs.nl>]

Hello,
 
I'm having trouble building a multi-module-project, for which the individual modules do get build and test properly. 
 
Here's what I want:
I'm using maven 2.0.4 to build a multi-module-project with 4 modules. The modules are seperated according to the functional layers of my application: Model, Dao's, Services and a WebApp.
 
In order to test my classes in the dao-layer I created a HSQL-database located in /src/test/resources/hsql/databases and added a seperated database configuration-file in /src/test/resources so my DAO's can use the provided database during testing instead of a central development database in which the data isn't stable and therefore produces inreliable test-results.
 
In the tests I configure my DataSource like so:
 
jdbc.driverClassName=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
jdbc.url=jdbc:hsqldb:file:src/test/resources/hsql/databases/commonConfigTest;shutdown=true
jdbc.username=sa
jdbc.password=
 
HSQL can use a relative path to determine the location of the database and so íf I run mvn surefire:test from inside the dao-module to proper database gets loaded and all my test are run without faillures.
 
When I try to build the entire project the tests fail, due to the fact the te relative path of the database is incorrect now. ( It's missing the module-name as the first directory ) Of course I could add the module name to the path in my jdbc.url, but this would cause the tests to fail when I run then from inside the module itself. ( Which I can't have since that is the way the test are run, when I run the test for within Eclipse.
 
Possible solutions I could think of:

1.	
	Alter my database.properties for the jdbc.url by a placeholder and then replace it after the resources:testResources with some full path.
2.	
	Change the build a little so the src of my module get copied to the parent-directory.

But neither seem really appealing to implement.
 
Does anybody have any suggestions how I can solve this problem?
 
With kind regards,
    Marco Beelen
 
 
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