Testing Jakarta EE 9 Applications with Arquillian and Payara 6

In the latest stable Payara 5, it added the early Jakarta EE 9 support. Payara 6.2021.Alpha1 brought full Jakarta EE 9/9.1 support by default. As Arquillian support for Payara 6 issue was fixed, testing Jakarta EE 9 applications against Payara servers is available.

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Payara Arquillian project provides several Arquillian Container adapters for Payara Server.

• Payara Managed Container Adapter
• Payara Remote Container Adapter
• Payara Embedded Container Adapter
• Payara Micro Managed Container Adapter

Example Codes

The example codes are shared via my Github. The Arquillian configuration for these 4 adapters are provided via 4 Maven profiles.

Prerequisites

• Java 11 (OpenJDK or AdoptOpenJDK)
• The latest Apache Maven
• The basic knowledge of JUnit 5
• Get to know the basic of Arquillian

Configuring Payara Managed Container Adapter

Add arquillian-payara-server-managed dependency into your project.

<dependency>
    <groupId>fish.payara.arquillian</groupId>
    <artifactId>payara-client-ee9</artifactId>
    <version>${arquillian-payara.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Payara Server Container adaptor -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>fish.payara.arquillian</groupId>
    <artifactId>arquillian-payara-server-managed</artifactId>
    <version>${arquillian-payara.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Create a container configuration in the arquillian.xml file.

<container qualifier="payara-managed">
    <configuration>
        <property name="allowConnectingToRunningServer">false</property>
        <property name="adminHost">localhost</property>
        <property name="adminPort">4848</property>
        <property name="enableH2">${enableDerby:true}</property>
        <property name="outputToConsole">true</property>
    </configuration>
</container>

Configure maven-dependency-plugin to download a copy of Payara distribution, and use it to run your tests. This is a great option to run the tests continuously in your CI servers.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-dependency-plugin.version}</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>unpack</id>
            <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>unpack</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <artifactItems>
                    <artifactItem>
                        <groupId>fish.payara.distributions</groupId>
                        <artifactId>payara</artifactId>
                        <version>${payara.version}</version>
                        <type>zip</type>
                        <overWrite>false</overWrite>
                        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
                    </artifactItem>
                </artifactItems>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-failsafe-plugin.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <systemPropertyVariables>
            <payara.home>${project.build.directory}/payara6</payara.home>
            <arquillian.launch>payara-managed</arquillian.launch>
        </systemPropertyVariables>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Run the following command to run the tests.

mvn clean verify -Parq-payara-managed

In this case, Arquillian is responsible for starting and stopping the Payara container.

Configuring Payara Remote Container Adapter

With Arquillian Payara remote container, you can run the tests against a running Payara server, esp. it is running on a different host.

Adding the following arquillian-payara-server-remote dependency instead.

<dependency>
    <groupId>fish.payara.arquillian</groupId>
    <artifactId>payara-client-ee9</artifactId>
    <version>${arquillian-payara.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>fish.payara.arquillian</groupId>
    <artifactId>arquillian-payara-server-remote</artifactId>
    <version>${arquillian-payara.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

And add a container section in the arquillian.xml file for this remote container, and configure the adminHost adminPort, adminUser , adminPassword if they are different from the default value.

<container qualifier="payara-remote">
        <configuration>
            <property name="adminHost">localhost</property>
            <property name="adminPort">4848</property>
            <property name="adminUser">admin</property>
            <!-- if https is enabled via `asadmin enable-secure-admin` on a remote server -->
            <!-- <property name="adminHttps">true</property>-->
            <!-- if admin password is changed via `asadmin change-admin-password` -->
            <!--<property name="adminPassword">adminadmin</property>-->
            <!-- default is empty -->
            <property name="adminPassword"></property>
        </configuration>
    </container>

Before executing the tests, make sure the target Payara server is running.

Run the following command to run tests against the running Payara server.

mvn clean verfiy -Parq-payara-managed

Configuring Payara Embedded Container Adapter

With the Payara embedded container adapter, you can run tests on an embedded Payara server.

Add the following dependency into your project.

<dependency>
     <groupId>fish.payara.extras</groupId>
     <artifactId>payara-embedded-all</artifactId>
     <version>${payara.version}</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>fish.payara.arquillian</groupId>
    <artifactId>arquillian-payara-server-embedded</artifactId>
    <version>${arquillian-payara.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Then run the following command to run tests.

mvn clean verfiy -Parq-payara-embdded

Configuring Payara Micro Managed Container Adapter

With the Payara Micro managed container adapter, you can run tests on an Payara Micro fat JAR.

Add the following dependency into your project.

<dependency>
      <groupId>fish.payara.arquillian</groupId>
      <artifactId>payara-client-ee9</artifactId>
      <version>${arquillian-payara.version}</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Payara Micro Managed Container Adaptor -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>fish.payara.arquillian</groupId>
    <artifactId>arquillian-payara-micro-managed</artifactId>
    <version>${arquillian-payara.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Download a copy of Payara Micro via maven dependency plugin, and set a system property payara.microJar to point to the location of the downloaded Payara Micro JAR.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-dependency-plugin.version}</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>unpack</id>
            <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>copy</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <artifactItems>
                    <artifactItem>
                        <groupId>fish.payara.extras</groupId>
                        <artifactId>payara-micro</artifactId>
                        <version>${payara.version}</version>
                        <type>jar</type>
                        <overWrite>false</overWrite>
                        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
                        <destFileName>payara-micro.jar</destFileName>
                    </artifactItem>
                </artifactItems>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-failsafe-plugin.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <systemPropertyVariables>
            <payara.microJar>${project.build.directory}/payara-micro.jar</payara.microJar>
        </systemPropertyVariables>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Then run the following command to run tests.

mvn clean verfiy -Parq-payara-micro

Get the source codes from my Github.