The Ant documentation explains a lot about the Ant tasks created for Cactus (cactifywar, cactus, runservertests). However, as far as I can find, it doesn't talk much about using Ant with an existing container that has been properly configured (for example in Tomcat, placing the Cactus JARs in the shared/lib and adding the servlets to conf/web.xml).
After a day or so of messing around with the cactus and runservertests tasks, I stumbled across a handy hint buried in the mailings lists. Hopefully this will help other developers starting with Cactus. Pass the cactus.contextURL property to the JVM running your unit tests (by your favorite means). See http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/manual/howto_config.html#clientside for more info. Run your JUnit tests from the standard junit task as you would normally. That's all there is to it, nothing fancy, but the info is not as easy to find as it could be. Hope this saves someone out there some time. -andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
