How to get argLine to work in maven surefire plugin

Question

I'm having difficulty trying to add an argument to the jvm. It looks like using surefire is the only way to do this. My current code in the pom.xml is

<plugin>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>2.19</version>
   <configuration>
       <argLine>-Xmx512m</argLine>
       <systemPropertyVariables>
          <all.clusters>${all.clusters}</all.clusters>
          <branding.token>${brandingToken}</branding.token>
       </systemPropertyVariables>
   </configuration>
</plugin>

Maven is new to me so perhaps I'm missing something simple.

Running in a Netbeans 8.1 environment.

Answer 1

Turns out that what I needed to do was not to get surefire to run with special arguments, because that only covers tests. The trick to getting it working was the fact that this project is a NetBeans application which uses the nbm-maven-plugin.

The following blog post describes how to modify the arguments. Blogpost