ESB and the use of EJB

[kurtstam]

The current code base uses a few EJBs. We will soon upgrade them to EJB3 standards (see http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBESB-47). It'd be nice if we can test without having to bring up the server like here (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/How+to+use+the+JBoss+Embedded+EJB3+Container+for+Unit+testing)
I'd like to know what people use and what their experiences are.

--Kurt

[jgilbert]

That is a good example. However, we aren't using maven and testng in JBossESB. But, Ant and JUnit will work just fine.

Here is a link to the JBoss documentation:
http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/embedded/embedded.html

I followed this to create the following:

- this is a well testes JUnit TestSetup class that could be ported to JBossESB/common
http://taylor.cvs.sourceforge.net/taylor/taylor/commons/src/main/java/net/taylor/jboss/EJB3Container.java?view=log

- this is an application that uses it. ignore the fact that it uses maven2.
http://taylor.cvs.sourceforge.net/taylor/taylor/tracker/

- this directory contains all the setup files. they can also be found in the ejb3 embedded container distro
src/test/resources/

- i also like to use the hsql in-memory db so that tests start fresh each time. hsql is available in the third-part jar in the distro

- we just need to add three jars to the JBossESB lib directory:
-- jboss-ejb3-all-alpha8.jar
-- hibernate-all-alpha8.jar
-- thirdparty-all-alpha8.jar

- also not that jms can also be tested in the junit. pretty cool!

[daniel.brum]

I'm not sure we can use the EJB3 embedded container. Please talk with Mark Little to clarify this Kurt.

[marklittle]

The current situation is that we can test EJB3 with the embedded container, but we can't use it within our product. I always like to test what we release, so it probably doesn't make sense to use the EJB3 support in the container.