There are three big problems in this version and in beta 2 also:

- It does not resolve the JBAS#4322 issue. So you cannot provide bootstrap configuration files in a jar.
- One cannot specify hibernate version. Hibernate 3.2.1 is the less buggy version at that time and I must work with the one in Hibernate-all.jar, that is not acceptable for me.
- The wrong EJBTransactionRolledbackException implementation (EJBTHREE#950) used by JBoss embedded hides real exception in the persistence layer with a maven environment.

So, I am stuck with the alpha 8 version. I consider that jboss embedded is the best tool for EJB3 unit testing at that time. Nevertheless, I hope the next release will provide a more flexible and stable product.

regards
Vincent MATHON

I have done some tests using a standalone application (which is working with beta-2) and got some troubles with this new version.

First of all, I had to add activation.jar in the classpath otherwize a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/activation/DataSource is thrown during bootstrap.

Next, Hibernate doesn't find JPA named queries defined in the META-INF/orm.xml. I've got the following error message : Exception in thread "main" javax.persistence.PersistenceException: org.hibernate.MappingException: Named query not known: accountOwner.findAll

Strangely, Hibernate does not generate any log message whatever the log4j configuration is. This does not help to identify the issue.

Pete,

we are just playing around with the beta3 but unfortunately we don´t really get this running. It seems as if there are some "gotchas" with the configuration while deploying and shutdown. We used the configuration-files from the jboss svn-repository, but they don´t seem to work.

Do you have any examples configuration-files somewhere, that we can use?
In beta2 we could use them from the downloaded-version, but as beta3 is not yet released and a lot of things seem to have changed in between, it´s a bit hard to configure the embedded JBoss correctly.

Thanks for your help

Thomas

Has beta3 been pushed out to the Maven repo at JBoss?

I'm trying to use beta3 in a very simple and minimal test application and getting:
WARN 26-01 12:57:44,317 (UnifiedLoaderRepository3.java:addClassLoader:713) -Tried to add non-URLClassLoader. Ignored
WARN 26-01 12:57:46,078 (TxControl.java::302) -[com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TxControl_1] - Name of XA node not defined. Using 7f000101:a735:479a939a:0
ERROR 26-01 12:57:47,731 (AbstractController.java:incrementState:755) -Error installing to Start: name=DsDataSourceTemplateInfo state=Create
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unsupported dsType: org.jboss.resource.metadata.mcf.ManagedConnectionFactoryDeploymentGroup
at org.jboss.resource.deployers.management.DsDataSourceTemplateInfo.start(DsDataSourceTemplateInfo.java:123)

Would it help if I provide an archive of this Maven project somewhere?
The application has been made as small as possible (under 50k Zipped) and I'm happy to help get Embedded JBoss usable in Maven for testing.

The error I posted in the previous post was using:
Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
Java 1.5.0_11
Maven 2.0.8
with the parent pom being Seam root 2.0.0CR2

If I instead run the Maven test application with the parent pom being Seam root 2.0.0GA I instead get:

WARN 26-01 13:07:50,008 (UnifiedLoaderRepository3.java:addClassLoader:713) -Tried to add non-URLClassLoader. Ignored
WARN 26-01 13:07:51,979 (TxControl.java::302) -[com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TxControl_1] - Name of XA node not defined. Using 7f000101:8481:479a95f7:0
ERROR 26-01 13:07:53,626 (AbstractController.java:incrementState:755) -Error installing to Start: name=DsDataSourceTemplateInfo state=Create
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unsupported dsType: org.jboss.resource.metadata.mcf.ManagedConnectionFactoryDeploymentGroup
at org.jboss.resource.deployers.management.DsDataSourceTemplateInfo.start(DsDataSourceTemplateInfo.java:123)

(in all cases I am using the beta3 version from the JBoss Maven Repo)

More information seems to have narrowed the problem down to the classloader in Embedded JBoss, specifically with how it loads the persistence.xml from multiple directories.

I lodged a bug against the Surefire Maven plugin and from their investigations it has revealed the possible problem.

The bug can be seen here:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-427

I attached to that bug report a test case:
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/attachment/32153/SUREFIRE-427_Test.zip

Please read that bug report for more information, which points towards how JBoss Embedded searched for the persistence.xml file.

Running maven requires running "mvn -up clean test" TWICE due to a bug in Maven.

To remove Maven from the picture, you can run the following command line (with the relevant directory paths changed - NOTE that you need to run maven at least once so the files are places in the target directory correctly):
java -cp ./SUREFIRE-427_Test/target/test-classes:\
./SUREFIRE-427_Test/target/classes:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/javax/ejb/ejb-api/3.0/ejb-api-3.0.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/javax/persistence/persistence-api/1.0/persistence-api-1.0.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/javax/servlet/servlet-api/2.5/servlet-api-2.5.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/testng/testng/5.5/testng-5.5-jdk15.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/jboss/embedded/thirdparty-all/beta2/thirdparty-all-beta2.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/hibernate/hibernate/3.2.4.sp1/hibernate-3.2.4.sp1.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/javax/transaction/jta/1.0.1B/jta-1.0.1B.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/asm/asm-attrs/1.5.3/asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/dom4j/dom4j/1.6.1-jboss/dom4j-1.6.1-jboss.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/antlr/antlr/2.7.6/antlr-2.7.6.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/cglib/cglib/2.1_3/cglib-2.1_3.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/asm/asm/1.5.3/asm-1.5.3.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/javax/faces/jsf-api/1.2_04-p02/jsf-api-1.2_04-p02.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/jboss/embedded/hibernate-all/beta2/hibernate-all-beta2.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/jboss/seam/jboss-seam/2.0.0.GA/jboss-seam-2.0.0.GA.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/jboss/javassist/3.3.ga/javassist-3.3.ga.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/javax/el/el-api/1.0/el-api-1.0.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/jboss/seam/jboss-el/2.0.0.GA/jboss-el-2.0.0.GA.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/hibernate/hibernate-entitymanager/3.3.1.ga/hibernate-entitymanager-3.3.1.ga.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/hibernate/hibernate-annotations/3.3.0.ga/hibernate-annotations-3.3.0.ga.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/hibernate/hibernate-commons-annotations/3.0.0.ga/hibernate-commons-annotations-3.0.0.ga.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/hibernate/hibernate-validator/3.0.0.GA/hibernate-validator-3.0.0.GA.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/jboss/jboss-common-core/2.0.4.GA/jboss-common-core-2.0.4.GA.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-all/beta2/jboss-embedded-all-beta2.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-embedded-api/beta2/jboss-embedded-api-beta2.jar:\
${HOME}/.m2/repository/org/jboss/embedded/jboss-deployers/beta2/jboss-deployers-beta2.jar \
org.testng.TestNG -testclass au.com.prowse.cory.seammavenexample.security.userrole.UserRoleRepositoryLocalTest

Is there any more information I can provide?

Ok problem solved and it is due to Maven, Embedded JBoss is working fine.

Details are here:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-443

I have a workable solution in the form of a change in the Maven POM which fixes the classpath issue and is detailed in the above JIRA issue for Maven Surefire.

Btw, http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-427 says it's JBoss Embeddded design specifics (but it will be a problem as more and more projects employ maven).