As you already say the forking is needed for the packaged tests. The only solution I can think about is to split these tests out. Effectively we would have two sets of tests then. All the "normal" unit tests (even though Steve would probably say that our unit tests are really integration tests as well ;-)) and then the packaged tests which would be "integration" tests. There are several ways of achieving this. We could configure multiple surefire executions or use the failsafe-maven-plugin. The former I approach I used before. The latter I haven't tried. There is more information about this here: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+and+Integration+Testing Create a Jira issue and assign it to me if you like. --Hardy On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:55:40 -0300, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: > Hi Maven gurus, > Is there a way to make mvn test runs faster for entitymanager? > It seems that the vm is forked for every test. While I understand the > need for the "packaging" tests, most tests don't require such forking > and could be executed much faster. > > I don't know if that's possible but that would be nice. > > Emmanuel > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev