I have a large .ear that consists of multiple .jars and multiple .war files that I am deploying into JBoss. I want to do end-to-end testing on one of the .wars' Controllers using spring-test-mvc framework, and hence need mvc Controllers from that .war @Autowired into my Arquillium test class. The .war in question has a servlet named "myservlet" in its web.xml (<servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>, and that's what I am using in SpringWebConfiguration below. The .ear (including the .war that I need to test) gets successfully deployed to JBoss, however, the Controller class is never injected and hence remains null.

I am using arquillian-jbossas-managed-4.2.

My test class looks like this :

@SpringWebConfiguration(servletName = "myservlet")

@RunWith(Arquillian.class)

public class AqruilliumTest {

   @Autowired

    private MyController myController;

   @Deployment

    public static Archive createDeployment() {

          // Create an Archive from the existing .ear build on the file system (not manually constructed in this method)

          EnterpriseArchive ear = ShrinkWrap

            .create( ZipImporter.class, "myLarge.ear" )

            .importFrom( new File( "/Users/kokovoj/EarAndItsVariousComponents/An-Overall-EAR-folder/myLarge.ear" ) )

            .as( EnterpriseArchive.class );

        System.out.println( ear.toString( true ) );

        return ear;

    }

    @Test

    @RunAsClient

    public void controllerInjected() throws Exception {

        System.out.println( "--->>myController [" + myController + "]" );

        assertNotNull( myController );

    }

Questions :

1. Is there a requirement / assumption that when using @SpringWebConfiguration, @Deployment public static Archive createDeployment() method MUST return a WebArchive for spring injections to work ? I am returning an EnterpriseArchive so is that the reason it does NOT work for me; is there a workaround for making this work for .ear ?

2. In @Deployment public static Archive createDeployment() method I am not constructing the .ear manually, but rather using an existing .ear on the file system. Is there a requirement / assumption that archive must be constructed manually through code (and not use an existing archive from the file system) for spring injections to work ?