Embeddable EJBContainer and JBoss 7.1.1.Final - jboss

Question

Has anyone been able to get EJBContainer.createEJBContainer() to work with JBoss 7.1.1.Final?
Running the following code as a JUnit test results in NullPointerException!
public class EJBContainerTest {
private static EJBContainer ejbContainer;
private static Context context;
#BeforeClass
public static void beforeClass() {
System.setProperty("jboss.home", "/home/usr1/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final");
ejbContainer = EJBContainer.createEJBContainer();
context = ejbContainer.getContext();
}
#Test
public void test() {
Assert.assertNotNull(context);
}
}
Stack trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.modules.Module.forClassLoader(Module.java:365)
at org.jboss.modules.Module.forClassLoader(Module.java:365)
at org.jboss.modules.Module.forClassLoader(Module.java:365)
at org.jboss.modules.Module.getContextModuleLoader(Module.java:421)
at org.jboss.as.embedded.ejb3.JBossStandaloneEJBContainerProvider.createEJBContainer(JBossStandaloneEJBContainerProvider.java:86)
at javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer.createEJBContainer(EJBContainer.java:93)
at javax.ejb.embeddable.EJBContainer.createEJBContainer(EJBContainer.java:75)
at org.arquillian.example.EJBContainerTest.beforeClass(EJBContainerTest.java:18)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:41)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:27)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)

Answer 1

Adding System.setProperty("org.jboss.as.embedded.ejb3.BARREN", "true") to the code above fixes the NPE problem and embedded container starts successfully but fails to deploy classes with the following error:
ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit.classes.STRUCTURE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.classes.STRUCTURE: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment "classes"
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:119)
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811)
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: Failed to mount deployment content
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.DeploymentRootMountProcessor.deploy(DeploymentRootMountProcessor.java:91)
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:113)
... 5 more
Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: invalid CEN header (bad signature)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:127) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:135) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]
at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:99) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]
at org.jboss.vfs.spi.JavaZipFileSystem.<init>(JavaZipFileSystem.java:97)
at org.jboss.vfs.spi.JavaZipFileSystem.<init>(JavaZipFileSystem.java:83)
at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZip(VFS.java:408)
at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZip(VFS.java:434)
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentMountProvider$Factory$ServerDeploymentRepositoryImpl.mountDeploymentContent(DeploymentMountProvider.java:95)
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.DeploymentRootMountProcessor.deploy(DeploymentRootMountProcessor.java:87)
... 6 more
16:49:12,128 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] (pool-9-thread-1) JBAS015870: Deploy of deployment "classes" was rolled back with failure message {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.deployment.unit.classes.STRUCTURE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.classes.STRUCTURE: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment \"classes\""}}
16:49:12,129 INFO [org.jboss.as.controller] (pool-9-thread-1) JBAS014774: Service status report
JBAS014777: Services which failed to start: service jboss.deployment.unit.classes.STRUCTURE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.classes.STRUCTURE: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment "classes"

Answer 2

You have to set these files : default.persistence.properties , ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml , embedded-jboss-beans.xml , jboss-jms-beans.xml ,jndi.properties, login-config.xml , security-beans.xml and if you use testNG you add also testng.xml in the src/test/resources directory
in your class you have to add :
System.setProperty("org.jboss.as.embedded.ejb3.BARREN", "true");
System.setProperty("jboss.home", "/home/usr1/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final");
System.setProperty("jboss.home.dir", "/home/usr1/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final");

Answer 3

There is an old bug in the JBoss class org.jboss.vfs.VirtualJarFileInputStream.
It cannot write valid Local file headers of Zip files. So the deployment of classes which creates a tempory zip file cannot work in JBoss.