I find that depending on an external database makes the unit tests very
brittle..   Unless you are specifically testing something that requires a
specific type of database, I find that using hsqldb or axion works fine..

Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Existence of a database?
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>
> On Sat, 15 May 2004, Ceki G�lc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Could we assume that gump machines have a database that these test
> > cases can connect to?
>
> You can savely assume that hsqldb is around[1] but not "installed" in
> any way.  I.e. you could make your tests depend on hsqldb and they'd
> work in Gump.
>
> Even if some Gump machine may use some kind of DB in the future (to
> gather historical data or whatever else we come up with), there'll be
> no guarantee that all machines have one.
>
> Stefan
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://brutus.apache.org/gump/public/hsqldb/hsqldb/index.html
>
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