Thanks for the help. It is running fine now.
It runs pretty slow. I found it runs much faster with the offline option as follows: mvn -DloadData=true initialize -o </build> <profiles> <profile> <id>dbunit-load-data</id> <activation> <property> <name>loadData</name> <value>true</value> </property> </activation> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <id>initialize</id> <phase>initialize</phase> <goals> <goal>run</goal> </goals> <configuration> <tasks> <property value="CLEAN_INSERT" name="operation" /> <property value="src/sql/population.xml" name="file" /> <property file="src/main/resources/spring/db.properties"/> <taskdef name="dbunit" classname="org.dbunit.ant.DbUnitTask" /> <dbunit driver="${db.connection.driver_class}" url="${db.connection.url}" userid="${db.connection.username}" password="${db.connection.password}" supportBatchStatement="false" schema="${db.connection.username}"> <operation type="${operation}" src="${file}" format="flat" /> </dbunit> </tasks> </configuration> </execution> </executions> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>oracle</groupId> <artifactId>oracle-jdbc</artifactId> <version>10g</version> <scope>runtime</scope> <type>jar</type> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>dbunit</groupId> <artifactId>dbunit</artifactId> <version>2.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>ant</groupId> <artifactId>ant-nodeps</artifactId> <version>1.6.5</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun</groupId> <artifactId>tools</artifactId> <version>1.5</version> <scope>system</scope> <systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </profile> </profiles> --Rick Hightower