Better way to test an ESB archive?

[thomas_k]

Hi,

We're using JBoss EAP 5.1 and I would like to use Arquillian to perform some integration tests on an ESB archive. My question is what's the best way to deploy the ESB archive? I currently deploy the ESB as module of an EAR archive:

@Deployment
public static EnterpriseArchive createDeployment() throws Exception {
    JavaArchive archive = ShrinkWrap.createFromZipFile(
           JavaArchive.class, new File("target/fancy-service.esb"))
       .addClass(FancyServiceTest.class);

    ApplicationDescriptor desc = Descriptors.create(ApplicationDescriptor.class)
        // ...
       .javaModule("fancy-service.esb");

    EnterpriseArchive ear = ShrinkWrap.create(EnterpriseArchive.class, "fancy-service-esb.ear")
        .addAsModule(archive)
        .setApplicationXML(new StringAsset(desc.exportAsString()));

    return ear;
}

Is there an alternative solution?

Thanks for any hints,

- Thomas