Suggest a JPA Unit test framework

Question

How to unit test JPA code? is there any way to generate Unit Test case itself?

Note: I am lazy and new to Unit Test code.

Answer 1

recently I faced a problem of testing:

1. business logic operating on JPA Entities
2. complex JPQL queries mixed with business logic.

I used JPA-Unit and it solved all my problems.

Answer 2

Check this out, Unitils. Here is a related discussion, with some example codes.

Here is the example, showing DBUnit, Spring and OpenJPA together. You might not using all, but this can take you somewhere if you want to go with DBUnit, I believe.

Answer 3

I'm in the middle of trying out OpenEJB (http://openejb.apache.org/) for my ongoing project. It's an embeddable container with support for EJB 3.0 (and partially 3.1). My first impression of it is fairly good.