[jboss-as7-dev] Unit test failure / regression for remoting

[Brian Stansberry]

I've asked Emanuel Muckenhuber to make this his top priority.

On 3/22/13 4:19 PM, Rob Stryker wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> We have a few unit tests which interact with the app servers to see if
> and when you guys break stuff ;)  And.... we found one.
>
> Tools currently uses the as7.1 jars, which in general communicate quite
> nicely with as7.0.x through eap6.1. However, there is a problem. One
> specific test fails against eap6.1 (and therefore i assume as7.2). It
> has to do with getting the futures from a ModelControllerClient command.
> The thread locks up, and nothing can proceed.
>
> I've tried updating our client jars to those in eap6.1, and it also
> mostly works... mostly... except the same unit test fails when run
> against as7.0.0.
>
> So to summarize,  as7.1.0 jars work 95% correctly against all versions,
> but fail when getting futures against eap6.1.  Eap6.1 jars work 95% of
> the time, but fail when getting futures against as7.0.0.
>
> Tools needs to have one set of jars in general which work with
> everything, if possible. So, the most reasonable solution is to fix the
> bug in as7.2 / eap6.1 which fails against as7.0.0 if at all possible.
> If it's not possible, well, tools will have to make a decision on
> whether to do a costly workaround or remove support for AS 7.0.0 in
> eclipse entirely. This would take time to research the extent of the
> risk of eclipse locking up all the time, and it might involve expertise
> we don't have.
>
> So *I* think, it'd be cool if the bug had someone look at it sometime
> EARLY next week, if at all possible ;)
>
> Max is taking a no-holds-barred approach in assigning blame here, and
> though he's a smiley-viking, he's a viking nonetheless. I'd tiptoe
> around him unless you're willing to help find a solution ;)
>
>
> Link to bug in question:  https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6779
>
> Anyway, it'd be really really great if someone could look at this,
> because it does have the potential to lock up eclipse, leave stalled
> jobs and workers, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Rob Stryker
> I break things, but I didn't break this.
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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat