How to be involved with Cactus (WAS Re: [Announcement] Mock Object project)

[Vincent Massol]

Title: RE: [Announcement] Mock Object project

Hi Fabien,   I very much appreciate your help for Cactus. There are several places where you might help. I suggest you first read http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/contributing.html, that would give you a good idea of where you can contribute. Then I would say it is a matter of choosing yourself what you would like to do. Don' forget to look at the todo list on the web site !   Tell me what you think! If you also have any other ideas, please put them forward ....   Thanks a lot -Vincent ----- Original Message ----- From: Fabien Lesire To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:54 AM Subject: RE: [Announcement] Mock Object project Hello vincent, I'm interresting to involved in the cactus project. What must i do ? Fabien -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Announcement] Mock Object project Hi all, I have decided to help the SourceForge Mock Object project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mockobjects or http://www.mockobjects.com) in making it a thriving and reference project in the domain of Mock Objects ! My idea is that I think it would be stupid to reinvent the wheel within Cactus and redevelop a mock object implementation for the Servlet API, Taglib API, filter API, EJB API, .... I much prefer to integrate with a well-known and thriving existing framework for MO ! As there is no such project at the current time, the goal is to transform the SF mockobjects project into that and rely on it within Cactus. I would like to have your opinion on that and I would very much like to have your support and everyone interested in Mock Objects should also come and help us in this endeavour ... lets unite our forces and make a reference MO project ! We'll have to write a bridge in Cactus to be able to use as is the classes from the mockobjects project but we'll be in a good position to do so if we are participating in both projects (that's also the idea). I also believe in mockobjects and actually would like to explore more this domain as I still consider myself a novice in that domain. The goal is still to make Cactus the preferred framework for doing server side unit testing, as it is obviously adding new features on top of a mock object framework (methodology, IC, PF, unit testing integrated with an automatic builds strategy, ...). However there will be an easy path for persons who start developing using the mockobjects classes and then who later want to use Cactus because they need its additional features. So I see the 2 projects as complementary rather than in competition. Your thoughts ? Thanks -Vincent