[jboss-dev] Testing Deployers Outside AS

I haven't made too much noise about this yet, but now that it's released: The Arquillian testing framework, as of 1.0.0.Alpha2, has a backing container integration for JBoss Reloaded. Carlo's originally defined "Reloaded" as the component which brings together a minimally-running Virutal Deployment Framework, MC, and jboss-bootstrap: http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-13453 The take-home that our Arquillian adaptor provides is an ultra-slim way to bring up MC/VDF without any explicit coding and enables testing of bits like Deployers and other MC beans in a slim manner, outside of AS. For instance, I check the postcondition that one of my deployers adds an attachment to the DeploymentUnit: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/ejb3/components/async/tru... In this way we can precertify that our projects' VDF components are working before they hit AS. The test above runs in under 2s. I recommend to projects using VDF that we start to use Arquillian as outlined above. This is also possible via manual setup, but the Reloaded APIs are still under change/flux, and hiding behind Arquillian to do the wiring gives you a much smaller API to manage (not to mention that it saves you from setting up jboss-bootstrap/MC on your own). S, ALR