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

Can we share these mocks like we discussed for graph validation - RF imports the module from the "Seam" space - but the Seam module doesn't depend on other Seam code? On 30 Apr 2009, at 15:13, Jay Balunas wrote: You may also want to check out > http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/TestDrivenJSFDevelopment > > Alex Smirnov has been working on this to help with RF 4.0 development. > Perhaps we can collaborate. > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev > > > > > -- > blog: http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Jay > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev > -- Pete Muir http://www.seamframework.org http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete