[jboss-dev] Testing Deployers Outside AS

[Andrew Lee Rubinger]

On 07/07/2010 09:40 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
> I'll be able to boot jbossweb and deploy/test servlets?

Unfortunately, no.  Reloaded intentionally addresses only the runtime 
and deployment environment (ie. MC+VDF).

For Servlets, etc, you'd need JBossWeb to be installed/deployed into a 
Reloaded base.  Again I point to Carlo who'd prototyped this last year 
in the "Spider" project, but this hasn't gained traction since then.

The reason I bring up Reloaded and the accompanying Arquillian container 
is to encourage projects to do this kind of wiring outside AS.  In that 
way we'll have precertified profiles (collections of deployments) which 
work in isolated fashion.  They'll be able to be brought up on their own 
quickly, and they'll have an easier migration path to AS inclusion.

S,
ALR

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> 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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