[seam-dev] the parody of mocks in JSF

[Pete Muir]

Can we share these mocks like we discussed for graph validation - RF  
imports the module from the "Seam" space - but the Seam module doesn't  
depend on other Seam code?

On 30 Apr 2009, at 15:13, Jay Balunas wrote:

> You may also want to check out http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/TestDrivenJSFDevelopment
>
> Alex Smirnov has been working on this to help with RF 4.0  
> development.  Perhaps we can collaborate.
>
> 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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