- Author: Sebastien Mosser
- Version: 02.2017
With respect tot the tools and frameworks we are using in this course, it is more useful to rely on the IntelliJ Ultimate Edition. As a student, you can register to the Jetbrains Student pack and get a license for free.
To support testing inside the application container, we rely on the Arquillian framework. Be sure that the "Arquilian JBoss support is installed"
Arquillian allows one to transparently start an application container, deploy the application inside and run tests suites.
To start a test suite, you cannot use the classical Unit runner, but use the Arquillian one instead (the icon looks like a little ET-like alien).
The run must be configured to specify which Application container must be used. In our case, we rely on TomEE, and considering it is specified in the maven pom.xml files, the IDE automatically propose to select it.
Unfortunately, the arquillian plugin does not support automatic enhancement of classes, which is necessary for OpenJPA to make classes persistent. We need to delegate this behaviour to a java agent, by specifying its path in the JVM options. The path is relative to the root of your IntelliJ Project.
In this example, we use openejb-javaagent (download link) in j2e/agent subfolder.
We then have to set -javaagent:j2e/agent/openejb-javaagent-4.7.5.jar as a VM option for TomEE tests launching. See picture below.
