You could use a service provider framework to register ejbs in the main TestClass and then retrieve them in your helper classes.
In your Test class you could inject your ejb
@EJB
private MyService myService;
Then in a method that is called before your tests
private void init() {
// add references to the injected ejbs for use by test helper classes
ServiceConfig.INSTANCE.addService(myService);
}
Then in you test helper class you can retrieve the ejb like this
public class TestHelper {
private MyService myService;
public TestHelper() {
myService = ServiceConfig.INSTANCE.getService(MyService.class);
}
.....
}
To use the ServiceConfig - you just need to mark your ejb as implementing BaseService
public interface BaseService {
}
/**
* Acts as a holder for injected stateless EJBs so that they can be accessed
* outside of their normal context.
*
* @author Magnus.Smith
*/
public enum ServiceConfig {
INSTANCE;
private Set<BaseService> services = new HashSet<BaseService>();
/**
* Gets the service keyed by serviceClass.
*
* @param serviceClazz The serviceClass to retrieve
* @return service matching given class
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if service not present
*/
public <E> E getService(Class<E> serviceClazz) throws IllegalArgumentException {
for (BaseService base : services) {
if (serviceClazz.isAssignableFrom(base.getClass())) {
return (E) base;
}
}
// service not present
throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(
"The service %s is not present in config!", serviceClazz.getName()));
}
/**
* Adds the ejb to
* @param service
*/
public void addService(BaseService service) {
services.add(service);
}
}
