[Feature]: Application Server Module

Module

New Module

Problem

As a Java test framework, it would be great for the Testcontainers project to expand into the Jakarta EE space by offering an application platform module with application containers.

This would allow application developers the ability to perform functional tests on their applications.
This would allow platform developers the ability to perform integration tests on their platform.

Solution

The solution I am proposing would be to have a new module named application-platform

With an abstract container type of ApplicationContainer

Implementations of this container would come from vendors, for example:

• IBM - Open Liberty
• Apache - Tomcat
• JBoss - Wildfly
• Oracle - Weblogic
• Eclipse - Payara

[WIP] An ApplicationContainer would contain:

abstract ApplicationContainer: 
  optional configurationFile
  optional applicationPackages (pre-compiled from src/ for functional testing)
  optional applicationArchives   (created from test/ at runtime for integration testing)
  required appContextRoot

Benefit

The benefit of having this feature would be to streamline the process of performing functional and integration testing on Jakarta EE platforms.

Alternatives

The direct alternative would be to use a generic container with a bespoke configuration.

The comprehensive alternative would be to use Microshed Testing which isn't being maintained.

The other alternative is Arquillian which has its own concept of "containers" which doesn't use docker as the underlying technology.

Would you like to help contributing this feature?

Yes

Beginne damit, die bestehenden Konventionen für Testcontainers-Module und den in diesem Issue vorgeschlagenen Anwendungsplattform-Umfang zu überprüfen. Als abgeschlossen gilt die Aufgabe, wenn ein abgestimmtes Design für ApplicationContainer, seine Konfiguration und Anwendungseingaben sowie ein klarer Weg für Anbieterimplementierungen wie Open Liberty, Tomcat, WildFly, WebLogic und Payara vorliegt.