junit - Arquillian: Wildfly embedded?

Question

Until now I had my integration tests running with Arquillian and an embedded Glassfish 4.x. As I suffer from bug ARQ-1458, I tried migrating to Wildfly 8.0.0.Beta1.

My deps in Maven are:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian</groupId>
    <artifactId>arquillian-bom</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.2.Final</version>
    <scope>import</scope>
    <type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.junit</groupId>
    <artifactId>arquillian-junit-container</artifactId>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.wildfly</groupId>
    <artifactId>wildfly-arquillian-container-embedded</artifactId>
    <version>8.0.0.Beta1</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.wildfly</groupId>
    <artifactId>wildfly-embedded</artifactId>
    <version>8.0.0.Beta1</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

When running my test, I get the error that jbossHome is null. I have NO arquillian.xml. When checking Github sources for wildfly-arquillian-container-embedded (POM), I wonder WHY an embedded container requires JBOSS_HOME? I understand to have it for the managed and remote variants, but why do I need it for an embedded one? The Arquillian pages also only have examples for JBoss AS as managed servers, so I wonder it it is possible at all (but why is there wildfly-arquillian-container-embedded then?)?

Or should I stick to a managed container with using the maven-dependency-plugin to download the container (see http://arquillian.org/guides/getting_started/#add_more_containers - bottom)?

Thanks and best regards!

Exact error is:

org.jboss.arquillian.container.spi.ConfigurationException: jbossHome 'null' must exist
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.spi.client.deployment.Validate.configurationDirectoryExists(Validate.java:139)
    at org.jboss.as.arquillian.container.embedded.EmbeddedContainerConfiguration.validate(EmbeddedContainerConfiguration.java:102)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.ContainerImpl.createDeployableConfiguration(ContainerImpl.java:115)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.ContainerImpl.setup(ContainerImpl.java:181)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$7.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:149)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$7.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:145)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.forContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:255)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.setupContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:144)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.createContainerContext(ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:88)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:135)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:115)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$1.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:62)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$1.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:55)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.forEachContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:209)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.container.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.setupContainers(ContainerLifecycleController.java:54)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:135)
    at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:115)

Answer 1

One should set environment variable JBOSS_HOME to path to jBoss installation. Otherwise, a tag property should be added to arquillian.xml inside a container tag.

<arquillian xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian
    http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian/arquillian_1_0.xsd">


<container qualifier="jboss" default="true">
    <configuration>
        <property name="jbossHome">/path/to/jboss/as</property>
    </configuration>
</container>

from example application jboss-javaee6-webapp