Surefire Unit Test arguments in Maven 2

To make the surefire plugin to maven2 operate in a seperate jvm instance, and have different jvm args (eg more memory, or profiler) you can change the way in which the unit tests are launched.

<code class="prettyprint">
 <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <forkMode>pertest</forkMode>
          <argLine>${maven.test.jvmargs}</argLine>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
</code>

Then you will need to set ${maven.test.jvmargs} in the properties area to keep maven going.

<code class="prettyprint">
<properties>
	<deploy.target/>
	<maven.test.jvmargs></maven.test.jvmargs>
</properties>
</code>

and finally to run

mvn  -Dtest=SearchSoak -Dmaven.test.jvmargs='-agentlib:yjpagent -Xmx128m' test

Some time the maven.junit.jvmargs parameter might appear in maven 2 as it did in maven 1 ?