How to use embeddable EJB container (Java EE 6 / EJB 3.1) on Mac OS?

Question

To my understanding, the intent of the embeddable EJB 3.1 container is - among others - to support out-of-container testing. I've created a JUnit test case that uses glassfish embeddable for integration testing of ejb 3.1 Light ejbs. I run the tests using Maven.
I have one general problem and one problem specific to Mac OS (I'm not able to use the embeddable container at all on Mac OS).
1. First the general problem: the ejb container does not inject or publish classes that are on the test class-path only:
src>main>java>MyEjb.class
src>test>java>MyTestEjb.class
The test case looks like this:
public class TestCase1b {
     static EJBContainer container;
     @BeforeClass
     public static void initEjbContainer() {
          container = EJBContainer.createEJBContainer();
          for ( Object property : System.getProperties().keySet() ) {
          System.out.print(property + " : ");
          System.out.println(System.getProperty((String)property));
     @Test
     public void canTestWithTransaction() throws NamingException, NotSupportedException, SystemException {
          Context ctx = container.getContext();
          OrderServiceTesterEjb orderServiceTester = (OrderServiceTesterEjb) ctx
                    .lookup("java:global/classes/OrderServiceTesterEjb");
          Assert.assertNotNull(orderServiceTester.testCreateOrderWithTransaction());
     @AfterClass
     public static void closeEjbContainer() {
          container.close();
The idea with a test-ejb is to mimic the way I typically perform junit integration testing with Spring: the test database i preloaded with test data. Each test-method of the junit test case starts a transaction, invokes the service, evaluates the state of the database and finally performs a rollback. My idea was to mimic that by creating a test ejb (Stateless, REQUIRES_NEW), that injects the EJB to test, calls the method to test, evaluates the result or db state and finally sets rollbackonly before returning. The problem is that the test case can lookup ejbs in src/main/java, but not the "test" ejbs in src/test/java. My workaround is to include the test-EJBs in src/main/java which I think is not acceptable.
2. Next the Mac-problem:
The Mac OS JDK 1.6 contains version 1.0 of javax.annotation (jsr 250). EJBs developed with Java EE 6 depends on version 1.1 of javax.annotation. Specifically, one typically need @Resource(lookup=... and @DataSourceDefinition of javax.annotation.sql which are both missing in the JDK. I can compile my EJBs by adding the javaee-api-6.0.jar library to my classpath. But when running unit tests with maven (as described above), a runtime error is reported, stating that the lookup-property of the @Resource annotation is undefined. This is logical, since the boot classpath should have precedence. So I added javaee-api-6.0.jar to the lib/endorsed directory of the jre. Unfortunetely, this triggers a segmentation fault of the Mac OS JVM when running the test. I have no other workaround than switching to windows. Any help / hints are much appreciated.
/Johan

Answer 1

Just as an update, we're soon to release the WLS 11g R1 PS2 update, which will contain WLS 10.3.3 just to confuse things.
As part of that, we're distributing for the first time, an additional .zip version of WLS to make it easier for developers.
The zip file distribution has no GUI installer -- it's a simple case of unzip, run a script it provides, then start the server.
The zip file distribution has been specifically tested on Mac OS X and the WLS config/domain scripts automatically adjust as necessary for the Mac OS X java environment.
Once the zip file distribution is available, we hope that developing against WLS on Mac OS X (and Windows/Linux) will be an easier task.
-steve-