Maven2 cargo plugin and integration test

So I was facing a problem of creating Maven2 project that would:

1. Create domain based on JBoss default server configuration,
   
2. Copy to this newly created domain configuration file and datasource configuration,
3. Start container with domain that was result of #2.

I thought that cargo-maven2-plugin will do the job.
Unfortunately it didn't.

My initial approach was:

1. Attach cargo:configure (undocumented goal :-/) to generate-test-sources phase, using standalone type, so configuration gets generated from scratch based on default,
2. Attach antrun:run to generate-test-resources phase to copy .properties to conf, and -ds.xml to deploy,
3. Attach cargo:start to pre-integration-test phase, using existing type, so configuration from #2 is read-only used, and *should* not be overwritten.

In theory it seems all great and already working.
But I couldn't convince cargo to work like that.
Started executing maven with -X to discover that maven configures mojos properly, not a big surprise, especially if you take a look at CI of cargo, you would suspect cargo of errors.
At the end of a day I created this ugly but working configuration:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>your.group.id</groupId>
 <artifactId>itest</artifactId>
 <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <name>Integration Tests</name>
 <description>This module provides a collection of integration tests.</description>
 <packaging>jar</packaging>
 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>junit</groupId>
   <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
   <version>3.8.1</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>your.group.id</groupId>
   <artifactId>your-ear</artifactId>
   <type>ear</type>
   <version>${project.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
   <artifactId>cargo-ant</artifactId>
   <version>0.9</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
   <artifactId>cargo-core-uberjar</artifactId>
   <version>0.9</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 <build>
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
     <execution>
      <phase>integration-test</phase>
      <goals>
       <goal>test</goal>
      </goals>
     </execution>
    </executions>
   </plugin>
   <plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.1</version>
    <executions>
     <execution>
      <id>tune-deployment</id>
      <phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
      <goals>
       <goal>run</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
       <tasks>
        <copy todir="${basedir}/target/jboss4x" overwrite="true">
         <fileset dir="${basedir}/src/jboss4x"/>
        </copy>
       </tasks>
      </configuration>
     </execution>
     <!-- This execution is needed to start container with existing configuration -->
     <execution>
      <id>start-container</id>
      <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
      <goals>
       <goal>run</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
       <tasks>
        <taskdef resource="cargo.tasks">
         <classpath refid="maven.test.classpath"/>
        </taskdef>
        <echo message="Starting Cargo..."/>
        <cargo containerId="jboss4x"
            home="${jboss4x.home}"
            output="${project.build.directory}/container.log"
            append="true"
            log="${project.build.directory}/cargo.log"
            action="start"
            wait="false">
         <configuration type="existing" home="${project.build.directory}/jboss4x">
          <property name="cargo.servlet.port" value="8982"/>
         </configuration>
        </cargo>
       </tasks>
      </configuration>
     </execution>
    </executions>
   </plugin>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
    <artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
     <wait>false</wait>
     <container>
      <containerId>jboss4x</containerId>
      <home>${jboss4x.home}</home>
      <output>${project.build.directory}/container.log</output>
      <append>true</append>
      <log>${project.build.directory}/cargo.log</log>
     </container>
     <configuration>
      <type>existing</type>
      <home>${project.build.directory}/jboss4x</home>
      <properties>
       <cargo.logging>high</cargo.logging>
      </properties>
     </configuration>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
     <execution>
      <id>stop-container</id>
      <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
      <goals>
       <goal>stop</goal>
      </goals>
     </execution>
     <execution>
      <id>create-deployment</id>
      <phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
      <goals>
       <goal>configure</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
       <container>
        <containerId>jboss4x</containerId>
        <home>${jboss4x.home}</home>
        <output>${project.build.directory}/container.log</output>
        <append>true</append>
        <log>${project.build.directory}/cargo.log</log>
       </container>
       <configuration>
        <type>standalone</type>
        <home>${project.build.directory}/jboss4x</home>
        <properties>
         <cargo.jvmargs>
          -Xdebug -Xnoagent
          -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8787,server=y,suspend=n
         </cargo.jvmargs>
         <cargo.logging>high</cargo.logging>
         <cargo.servlet.port>8982</cargo.servlet.port>
        </properties>
        <deployables>
         <deployable>
          <groupId>your.group.id</groupId>
          <artifactId>your-ear</artifactId>
          <type>ear</type>
         </deployable>
        </deployables>
       </configuration>
      </configuration>
     </execution>
    </executions>
   </plugin>
  </plugins>
 </build>
</project>