How about subclassing? Leave the existing beans and create
subclasses with the annotations.
-dain
On Nov 5, 2006, at 10:13 AM, David Blevins wrote:
So i've been racking my brain on the best approach for testing
annotations -- we have annotation support, just no tests. Really,
we want to run the entire test suite again on a set of annotated
beans with maybe a small deployment descriptor in there to test the
overrides too. We could annotate the existing beans, but then we'd
never really know for sure anymore if you could deploy an app that
wasn't annotated.
Seems the only way to do it is to have two sets of beans, one with
annotations and a small descriptor (if any) and another without
annotations and a full descriptor (i.e. the beans we have now).
Most of the annotated beans could simply be subclasses of the first
set of beans.
Going to take a stab at it and see if I can't get something to run
or at least keep the tests we have running. If you're hacking on
itests, consider this a heads up on potential change.
-David
