Installed Maven and python integration test

What am i trying to do

I currently have a Java project that Maven uses when building a system. In an attempt to implement some integration test coverage, I created a python test suite that starts my process, passes data to it, and verifies that the results are all as expected.

This worked well for me, however I am trying to set up my test suite environment correctly. For the test suite to work correctly, I need to locate the JAR file of my executable and determine the correct path to it. All these things are now hardcoded for my workspace.

Workspace layout

├── log
├── src
│   ├── integration-test
│   │   ├── python
│   │   └── resources
│   ├── main
│   │   ├── assembly
│   │   ├── env
│   │   ├── java
│   │   └── resources
│   └── test
│       ├── java
│       ├── resources
│       └── scripts
└── target
    ├── <Service JAR File>

      

        
        
        
      

    

Questions

• I am currently using maven to populate some properties files with settings obtained from the POM using the maven-resources plugin. But this seems to work with static settings. Can this be done? something like this with dynamic settings like the JAR name? Would this be the correct way to get the jar file path for my integration test?
• What's the ideal way to link my integration tests to maven build process? Ideally, after successful builds, I would like to run my integration tests just like the unit tests. `