Using Glassfish Embedded API in unit tests of Maven project - unit-testing

Question

I have a Maven Project running on Glassfish 3.0.1 with these dependencies in the pom.xml:
...
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.extras</groupId>
<artifactId>glassfish-embedded-all</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.8.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
...
I've been trying to run unit tests using the Glassfish Embedded API, as mentioned in the first dependency, but it gives me an error every time I try to create de EJBContainer.
test class:
...
#BeforeClass
public static void setUpClass() throws Exception {
EJBContainer ejbC = javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer.createContainer();
}
...
error log:
javax.ejb.EJBException: No EJBContainer provider available
The following providers:
org.glassfish.ejb.embedded.EJBContainerProviderImpl
Returned null from createEJBContainer call.
at javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer.reportError(EJBContainer.java:186)
at javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer.createEJBContainer(EJBContainer.java:121)
at br.com.code.seuticket.sms.bean.GatewayBeanClickatellImplTest.setUpClass(GatewayBeanClickatellImplTest.java:53)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:41)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:27)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:31)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4TestSet.execute(JUnit4TestSet.java:62)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.suite.AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.executeTestSet(AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.java:140)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.suite.AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.execute(AbstractDirectoryTestSuite.java:127)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.Surefire.run(Surefire.java:177)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.runSuitesInProcess(SurefireBooter.java:345)
at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter.main(SurefireBooter.java:1009)
Does anyone has experience with unit testing Maven projects with Glassfish Embedded API?

Answer 1

Check out the Arquillian project by JBoss.
The mission of the Arquillian project
is to provide a simple test harness
that abstracts away all container
lifecycle and deployment from the test
logic so developers can easily produce
a broad range of integration tests for
their enterprise Java applications.
Specific instructions for Glassfish. I use it for running my integration test with JUnit (and maven). Works great. The details of managing the embedded container are abstracted away, except for a little bit of initial configuration that they walk you through in the docs.

Answer 2

you can try this code it works for me :
i adjust propreties according to my glassfish standard installation floder
Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<>();
properties.put(EJBContainer.MODULES, new File("target/classes/cd/espoirmur/ejb"));
properties.put("installation.root", "C:\\Program Files\\glassfish-4.1");
properties.put("instance.root", "C:\\Program Files\\glassfish-4.1\\glassfish\\domains\\domain1");
properties.put("configuration.file", "C:\\Program Files\\glassfish-4.1\\glassfish\\domains\\domain1\\config\\domainEmbeded.xml");
EJBContainer ec = EJBContainer.createEJBContainer(properties);
System.out.println("--------------ejb container sucessfully created----------");
Context ctx = ec.getContext();
System.out.println("--------------ejb context successfull sucessfully created----------");
enter code here