Embedded JBoss, Maven, and the ubiquitous Jar

[drathnow]

For the most part, I've managed to figure out how to setup Embedded JBoss with Eclipse so I can run my unit tests. Now I'm trying to figure out how to setup my Maven pom.xml file so that I can run my tests from the command line with Maven.

After muddling around with the jar file dependencies, I'm stuck with the following exception:

Error installing to Start: name=ResourcesToDeploy3 state=Create
org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Unable to find deployDir from url: file:/c:/developer/fdexec/Applications/bridge/target/test-classes/deploy/
at org.jboss.embedded.DeploymentGroup.getDeployerDirUrls(DeploymentGroup.java:536)
at org.jboss.embedded.DeploymentGroup.getDeployerDirUrlsFromResource(DeploymentGroup.java:52
2)



There are more of these but all the errors refer to the directories and files required by Embedded JBoss to start. All the the directory and files do exist on disk in the location specified in the exception.

As Maven does, my project is separated into two jars, one containing the production code and the other all the test code. The test jar file contains all the deployment directories and files.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Dave.

[hubaer]

Hi Dave,

I had a similar problem once. I have located all the neccessary directories (conf, deploy, deployers etc.) under "src/test/resources" of my maven project I want to test, then the embedded jboss starts correctly.

I once tried to put the directories into a "test environment" jar, but that doesn't work, because the embedded jboss want real directories.
Hopes that helps.

Regards
Marco

[drathnow]

Marco,

I already have these directories under "src/test/resources". I assumed the whole point of building a jar file was so you don't have to rely on directories outside the jar file. Am I wrong?

Dave.

[drathnow]

So am I the only one using Embedded JBoss for unit testing? Am I also the only one trying to use Maven to build and run tests with EJ?

[hubaer]

Hi Dave,

we are using maven, testng and embedded jboss for testing. But as I mentioned we have the configuration and deployment directories in the articfact we are testing under "src/test/resources".

Could you explain a little more your structure? Is there a reason why you have all your test code in a separate sub project?

Marco

[drathnow]

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. All my test code is in the same project and being built by maven into two jar: on contain production code, one containing test code. The structure of my project is as follows:

src/main/java
src/main/resources
src/test/java
src/test/resources

I have all the embedded jboss stuff under the src/test/resources directory. However, when Maven builds my project, it is not copying the stuff from the src/test/resources directory into the target/test-classes directory.

Any suggestions?

[drathnow]

Hold the Phone!

I was wrong. The test resources are being copied over and the file being complained about in the stack trace is really there.

Any suggestions?

[drathnow]

After wading through the stack trace, I came across this little tid-bit:

Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: vfsfile
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:574)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:464)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:413)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.file.FileHandler.(FileHandler.java:75)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.file.FileHandler.(FileHandler.java:89)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.file.FileSystemContext.createVirtualFileHandler(FileSys
temContext.java:253)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.file.FileSystemContext.createVirtualFileHandler(FileSys
temContext.java:186)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.file.FileSystemContext.(FileSystemContext.java:15
0)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.file.FileSystemContext.(FileSystemContext.java:12
4)

I'm assuming I've missed something from my classpath.
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.file.FileSystemContext.(FileSystemContext.java:11
3)

[drathnow]

Problem solved. With that last exception, I found this:

http://www.jboss.org/?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=102426

Thanks for all the help.