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Re: GlassFish v3 - separate ejb container jar file?

From: Ryan de Laplante <ryan_at_ijws.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:46:33 -0500

Mahesh Kannan wrote:
> Ryan de Laplante wrote:
>> That is really good to hear - especially when EJB 3.1 is available.
>> Just to be clear, when you say "within a single (client) VM", you
>> mean that we will be able to start/stop an EJB container inside of
>> unit tests completely independent of an application server?
> Its more like running the EJBContainer inside an app client container
> itself.
Can explain this a bit more? As far as I know, an app client has a
dependency on the application server, and the app client container lives
inside of the application server.


Thanks,
Ryan



>> Will the startup time be sub-second like Spring, allow you to pass in
>> different configurations for testing, let you add JTA if you need
>> transactions, etc?
> Transactions will definitely be part of the EJBContainer. We are
> certainly going to have a very quick startup time (though I dont
> have any numbers). Glassfish V3 containers (like php, ruby and web)
> already have a great startup time. Please have a look at :
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-techPreview-1.html
>
> Thanks,
> --Mahesh
>
>>
>> I've talked with people who didn't want to use EJB because it was too
>> hard to do testing with. Ejb3unit might help (I haven't tried it),
>> but having a real container available in unit tests like Spring will
>> really help.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>> Mahesh Kannan wrote:
>>> Ryan de Laplante wrote:
>>>> Since GlassFish v3 will be so modular, I'm wondering if we'll one day
>>>> see an EJB container that is basically a jar file like Spring that we
>>>> can use outside of an app server, in unit tests, etc.
>>> Though this has not been finalized, Yes that is the plan. You should
>>> be able to test and run EJB apps within a single (client) VM.
>>> Thanks,
>>> --Mahesh
>>>> Will we see a
>>>> bunch of test suites that come with it so that developers can unit
>>>> test EJBs, MDBs, JPA, etc. like with Spring?
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone used ejb3unit? Is it any good?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ryan
>>>>
>>>>
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