[jboss-dev] Testing Deployers Outside AS

[Bill Burke]

I'll be able to boot jbossweb and deploy/test servlets?

Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:
> I haven't made too much noise about this yet, but now that it's released:
> 
> The Arquillian testing framework, as of 1.0.0.Alpha2, has a backing 
> container integration for JBoss Reloaded.  Carlo's originally defined 
> "Reloaded" as the component which brings together a minimally-running 
> Virutal Deployment Framework, MC, and jboss-bootstrap:
> 
> http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-13453
> 
> The take-home that our Arquillian adaptor provides is an ultra-slim way 
> to bring up MC/VDF without any explicit coding and enables testing of 
> bits like Deployers and other MC beans in a slim manner, outside of AS.
> 
> For instance, I check the postcondition that one of my deployers adds an 
> attachment to the DeploymentUnit:
> 
> http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/ejb3/components/async/trunk/deployer/src/test/java/org/jboss/ejb3/async/deployer/AsyncExecutorServiceDeployerTestCase.java
> 
> In this way we can precertify that our projects' VDF components are 
> working before they hit AS.  The test above runs in under 2s.
> 
> I recommend to projects using VDF that we start to use Arquillian as 
> outlined above.  This is also possible via manual setup, but the 
> Reloaded APIs are still under change/flux, and hiding behind Arquillian 
> to do the wiring gives you a much smaller API to manage (not to mention 
> that it saves you from setting up jboss-bootstrap/MC on your own).
> 
> S,
> ALR
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