[seam-dev] the parody of mocks in JSF

[Dan Allen]

It's hard to believe that for as long as JSF has been around, the only
decent repository of mocks for the JSF API comes not from the
implementation, but rather from all but dead and irrelevant project at
Apache (Shale). Of course, Seam 2 forged it's own path and has a healthy set
of mocks, although still somewhat incomplete and vagrant. In the Seam 3
spirit of modularity, I would like to migrate the Seam 2 mocks into a mock
module in Seam 3 that provides mock/stub object for various Java EE APIs. I
plan to categorize them by spec under the org.jboss.seam.mock folder

JSF - org.jboss.seam.mock.faces
Servlet - org.jboss.seam.mock.servlet
etc

This module should not depend on any other module so that it is easy to
reuse, perhaps even outside of the Seam framework. Perhaps seam-mock can end
up replacing Shale test. Who knows. We'll just let it play out. Please
contribute your ideas/use cases!

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/modules/trunk/mock/

As for the functionality, my feeling is that the mocks should be functional
as long as each class behaves like a bean. That means it shouldn't parse XML
documents or make similar assumptions. But they should be easy enough to
extend that perhaps you can add that functionality in your test case or we
can think about providing an additional subclass or helper if the need is
common (perhaps parsing an web.xml document).

-Dan

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