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Author: ptahchiev Date: Mon May 19 04:00:53 2008 New Revision: 657789 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=657789&view=rev Log: added the roadmap documentation. Added: jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/xdoc/participating/todo.xml (with props) Modified: jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/site.xml Modified: jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/site.xml URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/site.xml?rev=657789&r1=657788&r2=657789&view=diff ============================================================================== --- jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/site.xml (original) +++ jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/site.xml Mon May 19 04:00:53 2008 @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ </item> <item name="Participating" href="/participating/index.html" collapse="true"> <item name="About Us" href="/participating/contributors.html" /> + <item name="Roadmap" href="/participating/todo.html" /> <item name="TODO/Open Issues" href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CACTUS?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:openissues-panel"; /> <item name="Coding Conventions" href="/participating/coding_conventions.html" /> <item name="Public API/SPIs" href="/participating/apis.html" /> Added: jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/xdoc/participating/todo.xml URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/xdoc/participating/todo.xml?rev=657789&view=auto ============================================================================== --- jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/xdoc/participating/todo.xml (added) +++ jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/xdoc/participating/todo.xml Mon May 19 04:00:53 2008 @@ -0,0 +1,291 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> + +<!-- + * ======================================================================== + * + * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. + * + * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); + * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. + * You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + * + * ======================================================================== +--> + +<document id="todo"> + + <properties> + <title>Roadmap/Todo for Cactus</title> + </properties> + + <body> + + <section name="Forewords"> + <p> + As is stated on the Cactus <a href="site:goals">goals</a> page, + the intention is to explore as much as possible in the realm of unit + testing of server side java code ... + </p> + <p> + This brings a bad news and a good one ... The + bad one is that the TODO list is likely to keep growing or at least + have a respectable size ... The good one + is that there will be work for everyone ... :-) + </p> + <p> + If you are interested in participating, send an email on the Cactus + mailing list stating your interest and you'll be enrolled right + away ... We're always looking for help ! Don't be put off if in the + "Volunteer" column there is already a person listed. On the contrary, + the more person that participate in a given task, the better (like in + pair programming, several sets of eyes are always better than one!). + However you'll need to sync. with these others persons but this is + easily done by posting to the mailing-list. + </p> + <p> + The game has just begun ... ! + </p> + </section> + + <section name="Cactus 2.0"> + + <subsection name="Documentation"> + + <table> + <th>Description</th> + <th>Volunteers</th> + <tr> + <td>Add documentation for form-based authentication.</td> + <td>Vincent Massol</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Fix problems in changes.xml XSL stylesheet transformation so that + HTML elements are not stripped (such as the <p> elements we + have there).</td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Improve the documentation CheckSitemap Ant task to check external URLs + (when online).</td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td>Rewrite "Quick start guide" to take into account the different + front ends.</td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + </table> + </subsection> + + <subsection name="Build Process"> + <table> + <th>Description</th> + <th>Volunteers</th> + <tr> + <td>Fix the nightly Gump build so that the changes page get generated + with the CVS changelog information. ATM, it's always empty which + negates this nice feature... + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Add an automated Maven build (using codehaus). See + http://wiki.codehaus.org/general/CodehausBuildmeister. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Prevent the sample jetty project from building if the J2EE API is 1.2. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Add a Gump definition for building the Eclipse Site project + and only released an installed Eclipse update web site (no + zips). Same as what is on + http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.ajdt/download.html. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Add support in Ant Integration for the J2EE RI. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + </table> + </subsection> + + <subsection name="Design/Code"> + <table> + <th>Description</th> + <th>Volunteers</th> + <tr> + <td> + Run JDiff before releasing to mark new classes/methods/members with + <code>@since Cactus 1.6</code>. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Add EJB Redirectors so that unit testing of code that require an EJB + is facilitated. For example, let's imagine you need to test that an + object that has been put in the JNDI tree by a servlet can be retrieved + by an EJB. These are not unit tests per see but rather integration + tests, which is Cactus favorite domain. Also these redirectors could be + used to directly unit tests EJB whithout requiring a servlet + environment (at the current time, you need to call your EJB from a + Servlet/JSP/Filter Redirector, which is fine for certain tests but not + needed for others. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Enhance the <code>runservertests</code> task to accept nested + <code><containerset></code> elements. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Add test case for form-based authentication. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Improve the ServletTestRunner: look at ways to make it run without the + permission to set system properties. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Continue the JMS Redirector/Client to test Message Driven Beans. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Potentially replace access to instance variables of redirectors by + method calls. For example, replace "request.xxx()" by + "getHttpServletRequest().xxx()". Deprecate the direct access. Needs + to be discussed on cactus-dev. Also, deprecate XXXTestCase in favor + of test suites. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Add support for multi-concurrent Cactus tests. This involves storing + each test result under a unique key in the application scope. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Improve support for the JUnitReport XML format so that the Ant-provided + <code>junit-noframes.xsl</code> XSL is completely supported. ATM, some + sections appear blank. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Explore ways to improve the performance and design of the HTTP + transport. Currently, each test invocation involves a new connection + to the server. The HTTP/1.1 Keepalive feature could be used to reuse a + single connection for all test invocations. Responses to the + GET_RESULTS request do not need to include a body if there was no + exception on the server-side. Possibly use custom HTTP headers to + communicate the Cactus service parameters such as the name of the test + class and method, instead of using query string parameters. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Add a <code>OpenEJBTestSetup</code> class for OpenEJB integration + (in the same spirit as our current <code>JettyTestSetup</code> + class. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + </table> + </subsection> + + <subsection name="Ideas"> + <p> + Ideas to explore ... + </p> + <table> + <th>Description</th> + <th>Volunteers</th> + <tr> + <td> + Add performance extensions to be able to test each single method in + performance: response time. Need to add notion of server time in + cactus XML response. And need extensions (probably TestSuite + extensions to repeat each test or start several threads). Idea + initially suggested by + <a href="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Michael Rimov</a>. + Integrate JUnitPerf. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Use <a href="http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/docs/";>XDoclet</a> + with Cactus to better provide continuous integration. It could be + used to automatically generate <code>web.xml</code> files, + automatically generating test cases from methods to test, ... + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Add tutorial on Cactus and AOP unit testing (using AspectWerkz + for example). Also research adding a Cactus Aspect extension to allow + writing test cases as Aspects (this would allow to + remove the need for Cactus redirectors in most cases). + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Help Cactus users test multipart/form-data. At least explain how to do + it. Libraries to help on the server-side include + <a href="http://www.servlets.com/cos/index.html";>cos.jar</a> + and <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload/";>Commons FileUpload</a>. + Then we still need to provide a mechanism to easily send + multipart/form-data on the Cactus client side. The best solution would + be to use HttpClient but we are currently not exposing the HttpClient + API so that it could be used in a test. Submitted by + <a href="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Gunnar Ole Skogen</a>. + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + Provide a full servlet container test suite a la Watchdog using Cactus + </td> + <td>-</td> + </tr> + </table> + </subsection> + </section> + </body> +</document> Propchange: jakarta/cactus/trunk/cactus-site/src/site/xdoc/participating/todo.xml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ svn:eol-style = native --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]