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JBoss AS 7 Development - Second Edition

By : Francesco Marchioni
Book Image

JBoss AS 7 Development - Second Edition

By: Francesco Marchioni

Overview of this book

JBoss Application Server meets high standards of reliability, efficiency, and robustness, and is used to build powerful and secure Java EE applications. It supports the most important areas of Java Enterprise programming including EJB 3.1, Contexts and Dependency Injection, JAX-WS and JAX-RS web services, the security framework, and more. Getting started with JBoss application server development can be challenging; however, with the right approach and guidance, you can easily master it and this book promises that.Written in an easy-to-read style, this book will take you from the basics of JBoss AS—such as installing core components and plugins—to the skills that will make you a JBoss developer to be reckoned with, covering advanced topics such as developing applications with the JBoss messaging service, JBoss web services, clustered applications, and more.You will learn the necessary steps to install a suitable environment for developing enterprise applications on JBoss AS. You will also learn how to design Enterprise applications using Eclipse, JBoss plugins, and Maven to build and deploy your applications. Readers will learn how to enable distributed communication using JMS. Storing and retrieving objects will be made easier using the Java Persistence API. The core section of the book will take you into the programming arena with tested, real-world examples. The example programs have been carefully crafted to be easy to understand and useful as starting points for your applications. This practical guide will show you how to gain hands-on experience rapidly on Java EE development using JBoss AS with easy-to-understand and practical programming examples.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
JBoss AS 7 Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting started with Arquillian


Although Arquillian does not depend on a specific build tool, it is commonly used with Maven; it offers dependency management and thus simplifies the task of including the Arquillian libraries in the application since they are distributed in the Central Maven repository.

Depending on the type of archetype you have used for generation, you might have a different folder structure in your project; that is not an issue. What is really important is that you provide the following structure under your src folder:

  • main/

    • java/: Place all application Java source files here (under the Java package)

    • resources/: Place all application configuration files here

  • test/

    • java/: Place all test Java source files here (under the Java package)

    • resources/: Place all test configuration files here (for example, persistence.xml)

So by now, we will be working under test/java, which is where we will place our first Arquillian test class.

Writing an Arquillian test

If you have been working...