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Testing secured EJBs has been historically hard to get right. Up until now, I have been using proprietary techniques like JBossLoginContextFactory described in the article Testing secured EJBs on WildFly 8.1.x with Arquillian to test secured EJBs.

During this year Devoxx, David Blevins, founder of the Apache TomEE project - a lightweight Java EE Application Server, brought to my knowledge a little trick we can use to deal with Java EE security in a standard way that works across all Java EE compliant servers.

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In Java EE 6 Testing Part I I briefly introduced the EJB 3.1 Embeddable API using Glassfish embedded container to demonstrate how to start the container, lookup a bean in the project classpath and run a very simple integration test.

This post focus on Arquillian and ShrinkWrap and why they are awesome tools for integration testing of enterprise Java applications.

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