Question

My webapp has a non-empty production beans.xml under src/main/resources/META-INF.
Now, for my tests, I need to swap out 1 bean with an alternative.

Where do I put this test beans.xml which contains just this and nothing more?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans ...>
  <alternatives>
    <class>...MyTestReplacement</class>
  </alternatives>
</beans>

I tried under src/test/resources/META-INF but that is ignored. I am using arquillian and my test classpath is added to the ShrinkWrap.

Answer 1

Don’t use @Alternative, but use @Specializes. Just put the @Specializes bean only in your test classpath and it will automatically replace the real bean. No need to mess around with beans.xml.