[seam-dev] Re: the parody of mocks in JSF

It's hard to believe that for as long as JSF has been around, the only decent repository of mocks for the JSF API comes not from the implementation, but rather from all but dead and irrelevant project at Apache (Shale). Of course, Seam 2 forged it's own path and has a healthy set of mocks, although still somewhat incomplete and vagrant. In the Seam 3 spirit of modularity, I would like to migrate the Seam 2 mocks into a mock module in Seam 3 that provides mock/stub object for various Java EE APIs. I plan to categorize them by spec under the org.jboss.seam.mock folder JSF - org.jboss.seam.mock.faces Servlet - org.jboss.seam.mock.servlet etc This module should not depend on any other module so that it is easy to reuse, perhaps even outside of the Seam framework. Perhaps seam-mock can end up replacing Shale test. Who knows. We'll just let it play out. Please contribute your ideas/use cases! http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/modules/trunk/mock/ As for the functionality, my feeling is that the mocks should be functional as long as each class behaves like a bean. That means it shouldn't parse XML documents or make similar assumptions. But they should be easy enough to extend that perhaps you can add that functionality in your test case or we can think about providing an additional subclass or helper if the need is common (perhaps parsing an web.xml document). -Dan -- Dan Allen Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Dan NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a daily basis, personal or other work matters can sometimes keep me away from my email. If you contact me, but don't hear back for more than a week, it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message was caught in the spam filters. Please don't hesitate to resend a message if you feel that it did not reach my attention.