[infinispan-dev] running test suite with JBossTM vs DummyTM

[Sanne Grinovero]

Seems a good idea, but it's also nice if we can keep the testsuite
quick to run; would it make sense to still have the DummyTM as an
option for those tests which only need the most trivial TM?
I'm expecting the JBossTM is slower, but I really don't know.

Sanne

2011/1/24 Mircea Markus <mircea.markus at jboss.com>:
> Hi,
> Right now we are running our test suite using DummyTM.
> This is mainly for suppling users with a default, lightweight TM. And avoid
> a additional dependency.
>
> Even though this worked well for us so far, this might not be such a good
> idea after all: there are many not-so-obvious rules to be considered when
> implementing such a transaction manager  which, if not implemented might
> make our XAResource implementation work badly even though it works fine(eg
> [1]). Or even worse, it might make it look okay even though it doesn't.
>  On top of that there are grey areas in JTA spec, for which different
> vendors use different approaches. By using/testing against JBossTM we can
> document these usages and stick with (the recommended?) JBossTM
> functionality.
> Taking this one step further, wondering weather it makes sense to keep the
> DummyTM as it is in our code base, given the fact that it is far away from
> implementing the spec. One solution would be to enhance it (-1 IMO), another
> to replace it. Perhaps with a lightweight JBossTM?
> Cheers,
> Mircea
>
> [1] http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/infinispan-dev/2011-January/007243.html
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