+1

If your "unit tests" need to run in a container (any kind of container, including the Spring framework) then they ain't unit tests.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Kevin Wright <[address removed]> wrote:

Is it truly unit testing that you're after?

Spring's own guidelines state that you should never have any spring-specific constructs in your own code, that it sits on the outside and injects references.

You can (and should) create your own instances in unit testing and manually inject the minimal number of dependencies to get the thing tested.  Constructor-injection is good here, as it allows you to create immutable objects, which scale better and are far easier to test.  Having too many such dependencies to inject is a code smell, and you have a bigger problem on your hands.

What you're asking sounds a lot more like integration testing to me

On 31 May[masked]:10, Jon Hatfield <[address removed]> wrote:

Hi all,

The debate between spring and EJB continues but I would like to combine them. I like spring bean testing because it is simple and does not require mocking or elaborate config like arquillian. However, for an enterprise system I prefer to use a 'complete' app server like jboss because to me it is cleaner than bolting on jms, transaction managers etc. onto tomcat so that spring can be enterprise.

I have got 2 questions here:

1. Does anyone know how to use spring (or similar) for full junit coverage whilst using EJB and jboss on the back end? Perhaps a separate instance of jboss, just for junit, that has to be running when you run the tests?

2. Has anyone tried other combinations of spring with EJB together? My last company used spring MVC with EJB back end, for example.

Another strength of spring is its simple CDI, but ee 6 looks to have caught up (and you can write annotations yourself to do CDI). However I think there is a gap regarding testing in java ee, so I basically want to leverage testing from spring, but I am also interested in other ways to combine the strengths of both frameworks.

Regards,
Jon

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