MC archives vs. directories

[tzman]

I am trying to set up a test environment for development with EJB3 and JBoss 4.0.3+.

During the development cycle I want to give developers the ability to run small test applications which may/will become test cases in junit or testng. However, it appears that the examples have development code deployed to the mc in an archive and I would like to use a path to a directory.

Looking at the source code I thought I might be able to pass a URL for a local build directory to the foollowing method.

URL url = new File( "pathToMyBuildOutputDir" ).toURL();
EJB3StandaloneDeployer deployer.getDeployDirs().add( url );

The code comments seem to imply that this is possible: "The deployer will search through all archives and directories for annotated classes".

Trying this results in a NPE, I am not sure if this is a bug or my misunderstanding of what the mc can do.

Any comments/help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

[tzman]

In an attempt to make this simpler I think I made it more confusing. The code I am using is from various examples/tutorials.

URL url = new File( "pathToMyBuildOutputDir" ).toURL();
EJB3StandaloneBootstrap.boot(null);
EJB3StandaloneBootstrap.deployXmlResource( "coeds-beans.xml" );
deployer = new EJB3StandaloneDeployer();

//
// Is this possible/correct??
deployer.getDeployDirs().add( url );

deployer.getArchivesByResource().add( "META-INF/persistence.xml" );
deployer.create();
deployer.start();
initialContext = new InitialContext();

Here is the error I recieve. The error is initiated from deployer.create();
Fron debug, I can see that the file does exist, it is a directory and it does create a valid local URL. Withouth the added line in question, everything works correctly.

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLScheme(Unknown Source)
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source)
 at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(Unknown Source)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.initializeManagedEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Deployment.java:507)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3Deployment.create(Ejb3Deployment.java:264)
 at org.jboss.ejb3.embedded.EJB3StandaloneDeployer.create(EJB3StandaloneDeployer.java:381)
 at edu.uno.coeds.test.Ejb3Container.startup(Ejb3Container.java:84)

Thanks again for the help/clarification.