I've started creating a test target as part of the JBoss AS 5 testsuite to ensure when the embedded admin console is deployed, the server successfully starts and the console is accessible. It is anticipated that additional tests from the embjopr-jsfunit project will be included. Using ant tasks, I've created a test configuration, called admin-console-default, which includes the jboss-jsfunit.deployer and the jbas5-admin-console.war. Testing the target, the test errors with:

Testcase: testDeployWAR took 0.75 sec
 Caused an ERROR
Failed to get the test results at [http://localhost:8080/admin-console/ServletRedirector]
org.apache.cactus.util.ChainedRuntimeException: Failed to get the test results at [http://localhost:8080/admin-console/ServletRedirector]
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.DefaultHttpClient.doTest_aroundBody0(DefaultHttpClient.java:92)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.DefaultHttpClient.doTest_aroundBody1$advice(DefaultHttpClient.java:288)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.DefaultHttpClient.doTest(DefaultHttpClient.java)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.HttpProtocolHandler.runWebTest(HttpProtocolHandler.java:159)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.HttpProtocolHandler.runTest_aroundBody0(HttpProtocolHandler.java:80)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.HttpProtocolHandler.runTest_aroundBody1$advice(HttpProtocolHandler.java:288)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.connector.http.HttpProtocolHandler.runTest(HttpProtocolHandler.java)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.client.ClientTestCaseCaller.runTest(ClientTestCaseCaller.java:144)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.AbstractCactusTestCase.runBareClient(AbstractCactusTestCase.java:215)
 at org.apache.cactus.internal.AbstractCactusTestCase.runBare(AbstractCactusTestCase.java:133)


Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jboss/seam/contexts/Contexts
 at org.jboss.jsfunit.seam.ConversationScope.cache(ConversationScope.java:71)
 at org.jboss.jsfunit.seam.JSFUnitLifecycle.execute(JSFUnitLifecycle.java:76)
 at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:265)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)

And, as seen, setting the cactus.contextURL to:
jvmarg value="-Dcactus.contextURL=${node0.http.url}/admin-console"


I'd like to discuss this approach and the additional configuration steps to avoid the error shown above.