Hi there, I will try to answer your question.
Cactus deals with testing the core components from the J2EE spec (Servlets, JSPs and EJBs). If you have any framework-specific application, It will be difficult to use it. It is a mature project, and is past from the rapid development mode. HtmlUnit & HttpUnit both emalute browser behaviour and can be used to test the DOM structure of the pages, javascrpit, etc.... In my view HTMLUnit is being developed more than HttpUnit these days. Anyway they both are very mature projects. The key point is that http/htmlunit and cactus are complementary. They are not rival technologies. HTH, Petar. 2008/9/4, cowwoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to figure out which webapp testing framework to use. I ran > across http://www.proteios.org/wiki/TestPackageAlternatives which lists > Cactus under "Unit tests of Server-side code" while the other two were > listed under "Unit tests of Web Applications". Isn't that one and the same > thing? > > I've also noticed that HtmlUnit has been enjoying regular releases for over > 5 years now while Cactus has an ugly 3 year gap between version 1.8 and > 1.7. > I'm sorry for asking this obviously annoying question but... is Cactus dead > or dying? :) I've been using it on and off for years but it worries me when > no releases come out for so long. > > Ciao, > Gili > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Cactus-versus-HtmlUnit-versus-HttpUnit--tp19318771p19318771.html > Sent from the Cactus - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Regards, Petar! Karlovo, Bulgaria. - - - - - - - - | Author @ Manning Publications. | Technical Consultant @ HP | BGJUG-Bulgarian Java User Group Leader. | Apache Jakarta PMC member. | Jakarta Cactus Lead Developer. | Blogger: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/paranoiabla/ - - - - - - - - Public PGP Key at: https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0x19658550C3110611 Key Fingerprint: A369 A7EE 61BC 93A3 CDFF 55A5 1965 8550 C311 0611
