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Seam Forge – interview with project lead Lincoln Baxter, III

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Seam Forge – a core framework for rapid-application development in a standards-based environment.

Q: Hi Lincoln, thanks for your time. What’s cool about Forge?
A: Hi Michael, thanks for your interest in Forge! Special, that’s a tough one. It’s my project so it all feels a little special, but overall I think there are two big differences we’re going to see with Forge as opposed to other rapid application tools like it. The first is the fact that it is technology agnostic. Sure, it’s written in Java, and it primarily operates on Java projects right now, but it could be used on any technology, support any build tool, and even do things that are completely un-related to web development. I for one, plan on using it’s plugin system to control my home automation system. And that brings me to the other big thing that makes Forge special – the plugins themselves. Plugins are so easy to write that I expect people will be writing plugins for things we couldn’t have possibly imagined.

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Akquinet presents: Aslak Knutsen and Pete Muir on “The future of Java enterprise testing” and “The unified programming model of Java EE 6″

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In cooperation with the Java User Group Berlin Brandenburg, akquinet proudly presents the two JBoss Core Developers Aslak Knutsen and Pete Muir (project lead for Seam and Weld):

1) Throwing complexity over the wall:
The future of Java enterprise testing

This talk unveils the missing link in enterprise Java development: simple, portable integration tests. For many, enterprise Java development has long been an arduous undertaking because of this void. While development life is simple with unit tests and mocks, they only take you so far. Eventually, you need to validate how your components interact and operate in their intended environment–you real need integration tests. Yet, writing integration tests has meant assuming the burden of bootstrapping all or part of your infrastructure. That’s time lost and it places a mental barrier on testing.

Arquillian, a container-oriented testing framework layered atop TestNG and JUnit, tears down this barrier. It does so by bringing your test to the runtime rather than requiring you to manage the runtime from your test. Picking up where unit tests leave off, Arquillian enables you to test real components that rely on real enterprise services in a real runtime.

What’s the secret ingredient? This talk will show how Arquillian simplifies integration testing by providing a component model for tests, just as Java EE 5 simplified server-side programming by providing declarative services for application components. The test component model consists of container lifecycle management, test enrichment (dependency injection), container deployment and in-container test execution. Using a component model means your tests are portable and able to move between different environments, from single embedded or remote to multi-server to multi-cloud nodes.

Attend this talk to learn about the future of Java enterprise testing.

Presenter: Aslak Knutsen, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

Aslak Knutsen is currently employed by Red Hat, on the JBoss Seam team where he is the project lead for Arquillian and works on projects such as ShrinkWrap, Weld and Seam 3. Previously, Aslak was a Senior Consultant at Conduct AS (working with JBoss related technologies) and Senior Developer at EDB ASA (working with electronic billing/banking systems).

2) The unified programming model of Java EE 6

With the introduction of Contextual Dependency Injection and Managed Beans into the Java EE 6 platform, a Java EE developer now has a full complement of facilities to write a Java EE application. But when should CDI be used, and when should introduce EJBs? How can you integrate CDI and EJB into your application? In this session we will walk through a Java EE 6 application build around CDI, and show how we can unobtrusively add EJB services as we need them.

Presenter: Pete Muir, Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.

Pete is the project lead for Seam and Weld (the reference implementation of JSR-299: Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE), and is the co-founder of Arquillian, a test harness for Java application servers. Pete represented JBoss on the JSF 2.0 Expert Group. Pete is currently employed by Red Hat, as a Principal Software Engineer working on JBoss open source projects. Before working for Red Hat, Pete used and contributed to Seam whilst working for a UK based staffing agency as IT Development Manager.

date: October 6th 2010
time: 7pm-9pm (warm up 6:30pm)
venue: FU Berlin, Institut für Informatik, Hörsaal (EG), Takustrasse 9, 14195 Berlin

Join us for snacks and discussions after the talks!

How to test an EAR based JSF application using JSFUnit

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How do you test your JSF application? Using JSFUnit allows you to perform integration test of your JSF application. The tests are run inside the container. JSFUnit tests can access the internal state of your application. The JSFUnit documentation describes how JSFUnit can be integrated into a Maven build environment. It leverages the maven-cargo-plugin and the maven-surefire-plugin to deploy the tests to an application server and execute them using JUnit.

However this is only explained for a plain Web archive (.war). It remains unclear how a JSF application can be tested which is packaged within an Enterprise archive (.ear). Continue to read if you are interested to see how we used JSFUnit to test our EAR based JSF application and how we integrated it in our Maven build environment.

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