<plugin>
       <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
       <executions>
               <execution>
               <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
               <configuration>
                       <tasks>
                       <!--
                               the Property 'autodeploy' needs to be configured in the
                               settings.xml file the property should point to the autodeploy
                               folder from app server
                       -->
                       <echo message="About to copy EAR to autodeploydirectory..." />
                       <echo> EAR:
                               ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.ear
                               autodeploy directory: ${autodeploy} </echo>
                       <copy
                               file="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.ear"
                               todir="${autodeploy}" />
                       <echo message="Copied EAR to autodeploy directory." />
                       </tasks>
               </configuration>
                       <goals>
                       <goal>run</goal>
                       </goals>
               </execution>
       </executions>
</plugin>