[jbosscache-dev] Testing JDBCCacheLoader - Embedding AS inside a UT?

I've been messing around with JDBCCacheLoader and I have realised that we don't currently have a unit test that can test the JDBCCacheLoader inside an AS. Ok, we have JDBCCacheLoaderTest that can work based on the cache-jdbc.properties and you could start AS manually and test it. This however is a manual process and when it comes to CC, only standalone JDBCCacheLoader is being tested. I think it'd be ideal to basically extend JDBCCacheLoaderTest to set it up to work with an AS (starting it/stopping it). This would give us even more confidence and coverage for the ManagedConnectionFactory area. I might not have time to do that before I commit my current work for BETA1 but definitely something worth bearing in mind. Another question would be of course, what AS version would be integrate against? There're various projects out there that have done something similar, first obviously AS itself and second messaging. What's your experience with this? What have we learnt about it? Shall we reuse some code for this? We would need a very limited AS version actually with JNDI, JDBC Connection Pooling, HS and HS driver. As you can see, this opens ups whole bunch of questions. Thoughts? Opinions? Critics? Cheers, Galder Zamarreño Sr. Software Maintenance Engineer JBoss, a division of Red Hat IT executives: Red Hat still #1 for value http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/