[seam-dev] laying the tracks for Seam 3

[Pete Muir]

On 22 Apr 2009, at 22:04, Dan Allen wrote:

> Now for my next question. How do we test the examples? Are we to  
> port/use SeamTest or something you have cooked up in Web Beans? I  
> have no problem studying, I just don't want to waste time so perhaps  
> you can just point me in the right direction.

Good question. In Web Beans we are using the test-harness I wrote that  
allows both incontainer and unit testing of the same test, by  
declaratively declaring how the test is deployed. This has the  
advantage of actually running in a real container, and until JBoss  
Embedded is done, I think it is the way forward...

When JBoss Embedded is done, we can upgrade the test-harness to  
support it, and run tests using that to.

>
>
> -Dan
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Good news, I restructured the booking example into a 3 module  
> reactor project (ejb, war, ear) to build out an EAR deployable...and  
> it actually deploys. So far, you can use the hotel search. PLEASE  
> feel free to suggest refactorings. I'm just getting into the Web  
> Beans programming model here.
>
> The booking project lays down a standard for Seam 3 examples. I will  
> of course port ideas back and forth between Seam and Web Beans as we  
> learn more about Maven and how we want to set things up.
>
> One of the minor, but nice advances I made is that I was able to use  
> Maven project properties to minimize the repeated elements in each  
> pom.xml. Just check it out to see what I am talking about.
>
> Even cooler news was that I figured out how to build out an EAR for  
> JBoss AS complete with the data source embedded within it. This  
> simplifies the deployment, since you don't have to hang the -ds.xml  
> file out adjacent to the deployable and it allows Maven to do all  
> the work without any hacks. I even discovered that the jboss maven  
> plugin does a pretty decent job of deploying to JBoss. It doesn't do  
> an exploded archive yet, but for examples most people focus more on  
> just a one-time deployment. I haven't plunged into Cargo yet. I  
> might dabble in it later.
>
> I ran into one hangup that caused me to lose a couple of hours. If  
> you use the typical loader-repository setting in jboss-app.xml, it  
> breaks injection in Web Beans. I don't really understand why, or why  
> the loader-repository is really needed anymore, so I just made a  
> note in the pom.xml not to use it.
>
> Long story short, you can deploy booking. But you will need to have  
> Web Beans and JSF 2 SVN deployed to JBoss AS 5. That's all for now ;)
>
>
> -Dan
>
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