THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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Other option:
Check out archiva's webapp, there's a -Pmysql profile that you can use with jetty:run to execute archiva entirely on mysql.
The archiva-webapp/src/jetty-env-mysql.xml (This is actually a jetty configuration file) has some details on how to prep (or bootstrap) mysql so that you can have jpox create the tables and indexes for you.
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