The Cactus project is pleased to announce the release of version 1.7.
Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.
Goals
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Primarily a bug fix release. Several usability enhancements and the
support for JDK 5 have been added.
Main new features
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* [All] Make Cactus work with JDK 1.5 (CACTUS-129)
* [All] Tested with Orion 1.6.0b, Orion 2.0.4, Tomcat 4.1.31, Tomcat 5.0.29,
Resin 2.1.14, Resin 3.0.9, JBoss 3.2.6.
* [All] Added support for Resin 3.0.9 and above.
* [Ant/Maven] Add attribute "jvmArgs" in the container tasks (CACTUS-158).
* [Ant] The <jboss3x> container element now supports running JBoss in a
temporary directory, specified by the "tmpdir" attribute. In addition, by
using the "configDir" attribute, you can now specify a directory where you
have stored a custom JBoss server configuration (identified by the
"config" attribute). This configuration will be copied to the tmp
directory and used to configure JBoss (CACTUS-119).
* [Ant] Added new <resin2x> and <resin3x> tasks to start/stop Resin 2.x/3.x
instances.
* [Ant] Ensure faster shutdown times with WebLogic 7.x by using the
FORCESHUTDOWN WebLogic command instead of the graceful one (CACTUS-120).
* [Core] The JettyTestSetup class now checks if the Jetty server is already
started and only starts it if it isn't running. It also does not stops it
if it was running before JettyTestSetup was called. This is useful when
you have a master test suite and when you also wish to run your tests one
by one (CACTUS-118).
* [Maven] Added optional "source" attribute from the java plugin for
compiling
cactus tests (CACTUS-156).
* [Maven] Allow Cactus to include some resources in the webapp classpath
(WEB-INF/classes), through the use of variable "cactus.resources.dirs"
(CACTUS-132).
* [Maven] Extended "cactus.sysproperties" property to the "cactus:match" and
"cactus:single" goals (CACTUS-128).
* [Maven] Goal "cactus:test" is not executed if property "maven.test.skip"
is set (CACTUS-146).
* [Maven] The Cactus HTML JUnit report now displays the stack trace in case
Of failure (CACTUS-135).
* [Maven] The plugin now correctly uses the "maven.war.build.dir",
"maven.war.final.name", "maven.ejb.build.dir" and "maven.ejb.final.name"
properties from the WAR and EJB plugins instead of hard-coding the values.
Note that as a result, the Cactus plugins now requires version 1.7+ of the
WAR plugin and version 1.6+ of the EJB plugin. Please note that Maven
1.0.2 contains older versions of those plugins (CACTUS-64).
* [Maven] Cactus now guesses automatically what Java source files are Cactus
tests when packaging tests in an EAR (it was already supported when
running tests packaged in a WAR).
* [Maven] Added new "cactus.jboss3x.config.dir" property which allows users
to specify the location of a custom JBoss server configuration to use.
This configuration, if specified, will be copied by the <cactus> task to
"cactus.jboss3x.tmp.dir" (CACTUS-119).
* [Maven] Added new "cactus.jboss3x.tmp.dir" property which points to where
The JBoss server configuration for Cactus will be created. It defaults to
"${cactus.home.jboss3x}/server/cactus" (CACTUS-119).
* [Maven] Added new "cactus.sysproperties" property to the Maven plugin for
Cactus to allow passing system properties to the client and server side
Cactus JVMs.
Main bugs fixed
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* [Ant] The <resin3x> element of the <cactus> task is now correctly using
the user-defined port ("port" attribute). The port was previously
hardcoded to "8080".
* [Core] The Cactus Servlet Test Runner now re-initializes the Cactus
configuration when it is called the first time (in its init() method).
This allows testing several webapps in the same JVM (i.e without
restarting the container).
* [Core] Cactus was failing with a NullPointerException if the response was
not returning any output stream (which happens if response.setStatus(
HttpServletResponse.SC_NO_CONTENT) is called for example) (CACTUS-123).
* [Ant] Fixed "java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string:
"localhost"" error that was happening when using the <cactus> task with
JBoss 3.0.8. It was due to the fact that JBoss 3.0.8 does not support the
new "--server" parameter which works with newer versions of JBoss 3.x
(CACTUS-122).
* [Maven] Proper use of "maven.compile.target" and "maven.compile.source"
properties (CACTUS-161).
Changes
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Please check the Changes page at
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html for a full list of the
changes in version 1.7.
Known limitations and bugs:
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The list of open issues can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6do8z
For more information about Cactus, please visit
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/.
Have fun,
-The Cactus team
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