What is the problem with Glassfish Embedded container?

Question

This is my pom.xml (part of it):

[...]
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
  <artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
  <version>${jersey.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.sun.jersey.jersey-test-framework</groupId>
  <artifactId>jersey-test-framework-embedded-glassfish</artifactId>
  <version>${jersey.version}</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
[...]

This is the test:

public class FooTest extends JerseyTest {
  public FooTest() throws Exception {
    super("com.XXX");
  }
  @Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
  }
  @Test
  public void shouldWork() throws Exception {
  }
}

This is what I'm getting in the log:

com.sun.jersey.test.framework.spi.container.TestContainerException: org.glassfish.embed.EmbeddedException: You must start the server before calling this API method: EmbeddedDeployer.EmbeddedDeployer Constructor.
at com.sun.jersey.test.framework.spi.container.embedded.glassfish.EmbeddedGlassFishTestContainerFactory$EmbeddedGlassFishTestContainer.stop(EmbeddedGlassFishTestContainerFactory.java:154)
at com.sun.jersey.test.framework.JerseyTest.tearDown(JerseyTest.java:312)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[...]

When I remove setUp() method from the class everything works fine. What's wrong here?

Answer 1

You are unintentionally overriding its setUp() method. Try changing its name to something else, why not say it, before().

The original setUp() method invokes test container by calling TestContainer.start(). In your case it couldn't do that, because you overrided the method and never made any call to super.setUp(). Therefore, its complaining that, You must start the server.... so and so.

Answer 2

Try super.setUp(); in setup.

When you remove it it will call its inherited version of super. which is fine.

But as you add your own setUp you have overridden the super's version .