[seam-dev] Re: the parody of mocks in JSF

[Dan Allen]

Especially since Shale is now dead...

http://blogs.jsfcentral.com/editorsdesk/entry/shale_in_the_attic

-Dan

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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