This post describes what I have done and have seen when running AS7 embedded in Arquillian. There is a large overlap with what Kabir has done with embedded AS7 so lets try to converge.
The JBossASEmbeddedContainer the StandaloneServerFactory and waits for the Arquillian MBean to become available
Properties sysprops = new Properties();
sysprops.putAll(System.getProperties());
sysprops.setProperty("jboss.home.dir", jbossHomeDir.getAbsolutePath());
sysprops.setProperty("java.util.logging.manager", "org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager");
sysprops.setProperty("logging.configuration", "file:" + jbossHomeDir + "/standalone/configuration/logging.properties");
sysprops.setProperty("org.jboss.boot.log.file", jbossHomeDir + "/standalone/log/boot.log");
server = StandaloneServerFactory.create(jbossHomeDir, sysprops);
server.start();
The StandaloneServerFactory uses the InitialModuleLoaderFactory to bootstrap modules with a controlled set of packages from the app classpath. I agree with Jason, it is impossible to put stuff on the appclasspath and somehow hope the test deployemnts will behave like they would in a running server.
For this to work in ARQ it is necessary that nothing initializes jdk logging before we have a chance to load the LoggingManager from the "org.jboss.logmanager" module. Therefore, I added a looging abstraction to ARQ that allows you do disable or redirect ARQ logging to System.out
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<systemProperties>
<property>
<name>java.util.logging.manager</name>
<value>org.jboss.logmanager.LogManager</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>arquillian.logging</name>
<value>system</value>
</property>
</systemProperties>
</configuration>
</plugin>
The StandaloneServerFactory loads the server module and uses reflection and a proxy to bootstrap the server.
Currently, the server comes up and deployment fails with
12:46:07,295 ERROR [org.jboss.as.protocol.connection] (pool-1-thread-2) Failed to read a message: java.util.ServiceConfigurationError: org.jboss.marshalling.ProviderDescriptor: Provider org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverProviderDescriptor could not be instantiated: java.lang.ClassCastException
at java.util.ServiceLoader.fail(ServiceLoader.java:207) [:1.6.0_21]
at java.util.ServiceLoader.access$100(ServiceLoader.java:164) [:1.6.0_21]
at java.util.ServiceLoader$LazyIterator.next(ServiceLoader.java:353) [:1.6.0_21]
at java.util.ServiceLoader$1.next(ServiceLoader.java:421) [:1.6.0_21]
at org.jboss.marshalling.Marshalling.loadMarshallerFactory(Marshalling.java:78) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.0.CR8.jar:1.3.0.CR8]
at org.jboss.marshalling.Marshalling.getMarshallerFactory(Marshalling.java:74) [jboss-marshalling-1.3.0.CR8.jar:1.3.0.CR8]
at org.jboss.as.protocol.ProtocolUtils.<clinit>(ProtocolUtils.java:50) [jboss-as-protocol-7.0.0.Alpha1.jar:7.0.0.Alpha1]
at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.ManagementProtocolHeader.read(ManagementProtocolHeader.java:75) [jboss-as-protocol-7.0.0.Alpha1.jar:7.0.0.Alpha1]
at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.ManagementResponseHeader.read(ManagementResponseHeader.java:60) [jboss-as-protocol-7.0.0.Alpha1.jar:7.0.0.Alpha1]
at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.ManagementProtocolHeader.<init>(ManagementProtocolHeader.java:55) [jboss-as-protocol-7.0.0.Alpha1.jar:7.0.0.Alpha1]
at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.ManagementResponseHeader.<init>(ManagementResponseHeader.java:45) [jboss-as-protocol-7.0.0.Alpha1.jar:7.0.0.Alpha1]
at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.ManagementRequest$1.handle(ManagementRequest.java:124) [jboss-as-protocol-7.0.0.Alpha1.jar:7.0.0.Alpha1]
StandaloneServer is now an interface that also supports StandaloneServer.stop(). The idea is that the factory installs a service that can be used to bring down the server.
To try this out you need to checkout these branches
https://github.com/jbosgi/arquillian/tree/jbas7
https://github.com/jbosgi/jboss-as/tree/arquillian
Build AS7 and in arquillian run
mvn -Djboss.home=/home/tdiesler/git/jboss-as/build/target/jboss-7.0.0.Alpha2 -pl container/jbossas-embedded-7 -am install
I'll talk this through with Kabir. So hopefully the demos and other smoke/integration tests can be embedded ARQ tests soon.
cheers
-thomas