Hi

I'm an Arquillian 'newbie' and I have a question about how to configure a custom Servlet that must be initialized / loaded-on-startup as part of an Arquillian test web archive prior to the test running.

Firstly - if I omit a web.xml I can get JUnit tests running remotely in JBoss AS properly.  I package a JUnit web-archive using Shrinkwrap that contains Test classes , dependencies and 3rd party libs -- all good. The archive deploys OK and tests run but some will ultimately fail because some of the caches that the system accesses and are loaded by the Init Servlet are not initialized.

But, if I add a custom web.xml to the archive the Arquillian archive the Test does not initialize properly -- presumably because this file is now preventing the Arquillian framework from being initialized / configured properly...

As an example, I package the archive below:

  WebArchive war = ShrinkWrap.create( WebArchive.class, "test.war")

  .addPackages(true, "com.mikes")

  // add web.xml

  .setWebXML( new File("src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml") )

  // dont add empty beans -- adding it doesn't make any difference to the outcome

  // .addAsWebInfResource(EmptyAsset.INSTANCE, "beans.xml")

  // add JBOSS deployment structure -- includes modules on classpath

  .addAsManifestResource(new File("src/main/java/META-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml"))

  ;

And I get the following exception -- the Servlet initializes properly on startup but Arquillian is incomplete...

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ArquillianServletRunner not found. Could not determine ContextRoot from ProtocolMetadata, please contact DeployableContainer developer.

  at org.jboss.arquillian.protocol.servlet.ServletUtil.determineBaseURI(ServletUtil.java:69)

  at org.jboss.arquillian.protocol.servlet.ServletURIHandler.locateTestServlet(ServletURIHandler.java:60)

  at org.jboss.arquillian.protocol.servlet.ServletMethodExecutor.invoke(ServletMethodExecutor.java:84)

  at org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.impl.execution.RemoteTestExecuter.execute(RemoteTestExecuter.java:109)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

The web.xml is nothing special....

<web-app xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"

version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<servlet>

  <servlet-name>Initializer</servlet-name>

  <servlet-class>com.mikes.MikesInitServlet</servlet-class>

  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

</servlet>

</web-app>

I'm not really sure what else to try -- I am sure there must be a way to have Arquillian 'merge' or 'inject' custom web.xml with its servlet configuration ?

I am using the following arquillian dependencies:

• arquillian-bom 1.1.10.Final
• jboss-as-arquillian-container-remote  7.1.1.Final
• arquillian-protocol-servlet
• arquillian-junit-container

Thanks in advance !

Mike