Question

I have a project that contains both the ws client and service (JAX-WS). Is there a way of having the ws deploy during automated testing such that I can have my client tests encompass the calls to the service?

Obviously this would require deployment to an application server… or is this kind of testing ill-advised?

Answer 1

I found a suitable solution to this problem. Using embedded Tomcat (7.0.11), I was able to successfully deploy my web-service programmatically during the running of the unit test.

tomcat = new Tomcat();
tomcat.setBaseDir(".");
tomcat.setPort(8084);
tomcat.addWebapp("/", System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/build/web");
tomcat.setHostname("localhost");
tomcat.enableNaming();
tomcat.start();

This approach suited me well as I wanted to automate the testing of a web-service client. As Piyush pointed out, soapUI is a perfect way to perform integration testing.

Edit

If you are using context.xml you will need to define it like so:

Context ctx = tomcat.addWebapp("/", System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/build/web");
File contextFile = new File("META-INF/context.xml");
ctx.setConfigFile(contextFile);