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how to perform integration tests of you Java EE 6 application using Arquillian

@RunWith(Arquillian.class)

JDBC Templates hardly give any abstraction on top of the database and you’re on your own for Object Relational Mapping. We strongly advise to use JPA wherever possible; it gives portability by abstracting most of the database specific SQL that you would need, and it does all the hard and painful work of object mapping

small part of your application

In general, JDBC Templates are a poor solution. They don’t have enough abstraction to work on different databases because you use plain SQL in queries. There is also no real ORM mapping which results in quite a lot of boilerplate code

SimpleJdbcTemplate(ds)

@InterceptorBinding

The discussion whether or not to use Spring vs. Java EE for new enterprise Java applications is a no-brainer

Why migrate?

since then fallen a prey to the hungry minds of Venture Capitalists and finally into the hands of a virtualization company called VMware

While the different companies and individuals behind the Spring framework have been doing some work in the JCP their voting behavior on important JSRs is peculiar to say the least

outdated ORM solution like JDBC templates

some developers completely stopped looking at new developments in the Java EE space and might have lost track of the current state of technology

size of the deployment archive

fairly standard Java EE 6 application will take up about 100 kilobytes

comparable Spring application weighs in at a whopping 30 Megabytes!

Lightweight

Firing up the latest JBoss AS 7 Application Server from scratch and deploying a full blown Java EE 6 application into the server takes somewhere between two and five seconds on a standard machine. This is in the same league as a Tomcat / Spring combo

Dependency injection

Java EE 6, the Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) specification was introduced to the Java platform, which has a very powerful contextual DI model adding extensibility of injectable enterprise services

Aspect Oriented Programming

“AOP Light” and this is exactly what Java EE Interceptors do

common pitfall when taking AOP too far is that your code might end up all asymmetric and unreadable. This is due to the fact that the aspect and its implementation are not in the same place. Determining what a piece of code will do at runtime at a glance will be really hard

Testing

With Arquillian we can get rid of mocking frameworks and test Java EE components in their natural environment

Tooling

capabilities comparison matrix below to map Spring’s technology to that of Java EE

Capability Spring JavaEE Dependency Injection Spring Container CDI Transactions AOP / annotations EJB Web framework Spring Web MVC JSF AOP AspectJ (limited to Spring beans) Interceptors Messaging JMS JMS / CDI Data Access JDBC templates / other ORM / JPA JPA RESTful Web Services Spring Web MVC (3.0) JAX-RS Integration testing Spring Test framework Arquillian *

Changes for Hibernate 3.5 applications

if your application uses Hibernate 3 classes that are not available in Hibernate 4, for example, some of the validator or search classes, you may see ClassNotFoundExceptions when you deploy your application. If you encounter this problem, you can try one of two approaches: You may be able to resolve the issue by copying the specific Hibernate 3 JARs containing those classes into the application "/lib" directory or by adding them to the classpath using some other method. In some cases this may result in ClassCastExceptions or other class loading issues due to the mixed use of the Hibernate versions, so you will need to use the second approach. You need to tell the server to use only the Hibernate 3 libraries and you will need to add exclusions for the Hibernate 4 libraries. Details on how to do this are described here: JPA Reference Guide.

In previous versions of the application server, the JCA data source configuration was defined in a file with a suffix of *-ds.xml. This file was then deployed in the server's deploy directory. The JDBC driver was copied to the server lib/ directory or packaged in the application's WEB-INF/lib/ directory. In AS7, this has all changed. You will no longer package the JDBC driver with the application or in the server/lib directory. The *-ds.xml file is now obsolete and the datasource configuration information is now defined in the standalone/configuration/standalone.xml or in the domain/configuration/domain.xml file. A JDBC 4-compliant driver can be installed as a deployment or as a core module. A driver that is JDBC 4-compliant contains a META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver file that specifies the driver class name. A driver that is not JDBC 4-compliant requires additional steps, as noted below.

DataSource Configuration

domain mode, the configuration file is the domain/configuration/domain.xml

standalone mode, you will configure the datasource in the standalone/configuration/standalone.xml

MySQL datasource element:

        <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/YourApplicationURL</connection-url>        <driver-class> com.mysql.jdbc.Driver </driver-class>        <driver> mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar </driver>

       <security>            <user-name> USERID </user-name>            <password> PASSWORD</password>        </security>

example of the driver element for driver that is not JDBC 4-compliant. The driver-class must be specified since it there is no META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver file that specifies the driver class name.

 <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>

JDBC driver can be installed into the container in one of two ways: either as a deployment or as a core module

Install the JDBC driver

Install the JDBC driver as a deployment

In AS7 standalone mode, you simply copy the JDBC 4-compliant JAR into the AS7_HOME/standalone/deployments directory

example of a MySQL JDBC driver installed as a deployment:     AS7_HOME/standalone/deployments/mysql-connector-java-5.1.15.jar

We have no intention of releasing Seam 4

eventual aim is to migrate all of Seam 3 and MyFaces CODI to DeltaSpike

Application-created persistence units

Native Hibernate applications

native (i.e. non-JPA)

JPA applications that create an EntityManagerFactory on their own, either using the PersistenceProvider SPI directly or through an intermediary mechanism such as Spring's LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean

standard Java EE-applications may ignore the provider implementation and rely on the standard features provided by the container - JBoss AS7 supporting standard JPA 1.0 and 2.0

future versions of JBoss AS7 it will be possible to use alternative persistence provider implementations

3 Migration -- Moving to NetBeans

4 Performance

8 Maven

10 Editing

11 Database Connectivity 12 Compiling and Building Projects 13 Debugging

15 Java EE Development 16 Web Services Development

17 Version Control Systems

17.2 Subversion

18 Issue Tracking Integration

18.2 JIRA

19 Profiler

23 PHP

24 UML