Vincent Massol wrote: > I'm reposting in the secret hope that I got no response to this email I > sent last week because no one saw it in the flood of Tomcat emails ! If > I get no answer this time, I will understand that no one finds this of > interest and will try again in 6 months - 1 year :-) > > Thanks > -Vincent > > ---- > > Hi Tomcat developers, > > This is a proposal to bring Jakarta Tomcat and Jakarta Cactus > (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus) closer. I hope you'll like it. > > (0) Rationale > > Jakarta Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing Servlet, Taglibs > and Filters. Jakarta Tomcat is a Servlet engine (Servlet, Taglibs, > Filters). They are both part of the Jakarta community. At the moment, > there are no existing Servlet container that have an easy way to unit > test Servlets. The idea is to bring this ease of use to Tomcat by making > it easy to use Cactus within Tomcat (in other words, add a unit testing > service to Tomcat). > > (1) Scope of the proposal > > a) To bundle Cactus within Tomcat so that it provides a unique ease of > use for Tomcat users who wishes to test their servlet code > b) To make Cactus the official Tomcat test framework for end users > > (1) From the point of view of Tomcat users > > By providing the bundling defined in point (2) below, Tomcat end users > would only have to do the following to test their code (see > http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/1.4/howto_tomcat.html, steps 4 to 6) : > > a) Create Cactus test classes in their WEB-INF/classes directory > b) Open a browser and type the URL of the Cactus test runner, passing > the name of the test class (see the link above for details) > > (2) Cactus bundling in Tomcat > > "Bundling" Cactus in Tomcat means (see steps 1 to 3 on the above link) : > > a) Adding the following jars to common/lib : cactus.jar, junit.jar, > httpclient.jar, aspectjrt.jar (total of 423 KB) > b) Adding the Cactus servlet test runner and redirector servlet and > mappings in conf/web.xml > > (3) Versions > > The target Tomcat version for this proposal is 4.0 and greater. The > Cactus one is 1.4 and greater (note that Cactus 1.4 is not released yet > and is still in CVS - It can be downloaded from the nightly build). > > Comments, ideas ?
A good idea. Weæve already seen (or at least others have) integration of Ant into Tomcat for WebApp deployment. This would be another step in the right direction. I know that we, common users/admins/developers, can slap it all together ourselves, but it would be nice if someone with "greater vision" would outline the proper way and do it. Nix. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
