I searched the archives but, surprisingly, I could not find anything on this.
I am using ServletTestCase. Extending this test case works just fine. No problem. However, I have an existing object hierarchy that I would like to preserve. Although all of the Cactus documentation discusses extending one of the Cactus tests, I figured I could just implement some appropriate interface(s) and use delegation. As I read further, I understood the use of publicly accessible attributes of the various Cactus test cases. If this access were done through getters and setters, I would have no problem. It seems that I have four choices. 1. Implement some arcane introspective state listener such that I can transfer state changes in my base class to a delegate Cactus class. I'm not even sure how to do that off the top of my head and I don't like the idea very much. 2. Copy implementation from an appropriate Cactus class to my base class. I also don't like this. It is poor design and couples my base class too closely to this version of Cactus. Of course, it would work. 3. Discuss contributing to Cactus such that the framework will permit a design that could use delegation. This would be fine, but it can not meet the time frame requirements that I have. 4. Change the design of existing code base that I have so this is not an issue. I can't really afford to do this at this time due to the effort and risk involved. Any suggestions from others that have been down this road before? -- Jay
