Testing against Java EE 6 API

Question

I write an addition to JAX-RS and included the Java EE 6 API as a Maven dependency.

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Answer 1

As for me, JBoss' implementation is smaller than the whole Glassfish, so I'm using:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jboss.spec</groupId>
        <artifactId>jboss-javaee-6.0</artifactId>
        <version>${version.jboss-javaee-6.0}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>

<scope>test</scope> should also do no harm.

Answer 2

Not sure this will solve your problem but GlassFish Embedded provides a Java EE 6 implementation. Add this to your pom.xml:

<project>
  ...
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>glassfish-extras-repository</id>
      <url>http://download.java.net/maven/glassfish/org/glassfish/extras</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>
  ...
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.glassfish.extras</groupId>
      <artifactId>glassfish-embedded-all</artifactId>
      <version>3.0.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>javax</groupId>
      <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
      <version>6.0</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    ...
  </dependencies>
  ...
</project>

It's important to declare the glassfish-embedded-all artifact before the javaee-api.

Answer 3

An alternative that is JSR provider agnostic is

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
  <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>javax</groupId>
    <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
    <version>6.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

This allows you to swap Jersey with a different provider. For Glassfish 3.1.2, it uses jersey-server 1.11, which uses jsr311 version 1.1 according to the jersey pom.