Testing @Configurable using the Maven Surefire plugin

Posted by bmatthews68 on Oct 26, 2008 • (0)

I am using the @Configurable annotation to inject dependencies using AspectJ load time weaving and I still want to be able to unit test my code using the Maven Surefire plugin.

The following plugin configuration ensures the spring-agent dependency downloaded to my local Maven repository and configures the command line for the JVM.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <argLine>-javaagent:${user.home}/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-agent/${org.springframework.version}/spring-agent-${org.springframework.version}.jar</argLine>
    </configuration>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-agent</artifactId>
            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</plugin>

I used ${org.springframework.version} to reduce the probability missing something when I upgrade to a later version of Spring.

<properties>
    <org.springframework.version>2.5.5</org.springframework.version>
</properties>

Tagged as aspectj, junit, maven, spring, surefire, tdd + Categorized as Development, Test Driven Development

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