Thanks for your answer, Daniel. If there's still a use case for StubToolkit, I'd like to know why I get a CNFE when I'm trying to use it in a simple JavaFX application (see the link in my previous message). Has anyone succeeded in building and using it (outside Oracle)?
Cheers, Uwe Daniel Blaukopf <daniel.blauk...@oracle.com> , 22/1/2014 2:49 PM: Hi Uwe, On Jan 22, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Uwe Sander <usan...@tesis.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in headless testing, too. I tried to use StubToolkit for > including TestFX tests in a headless build, but all I got was a CNFE. If > anyone is interested to give me a hand on this, details can be found at > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21137039/how-to-use-stubtoolkit-instead-of-quantum-toolkit-for-my-javafx-application. > > > As Tom explained, Monocle would provide another way for headless testing. > Does it replace StubToolkit? Monocle uses the same Quantum toolkit that other JavaFX implementation use - not StubToolkit, which is only used in testing. As I see it, there is a place for tests using StubToolkit, and a place for tests using a real Toolkit implementation. For example, QuantumToolkit has a very specific threading model, but this is not enforced by StubToolkit. StubToolkit is useful for isolated tests of the upper parts of the JavaFX stack. For a real application you need to test on a real Toolkit, and headless Monocle is one way to do that. We have https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35330 open on removing StubToolkit. I’m not convinced that is the right thing to do. https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35396 would open up possibilities for a new class of automated test, without requiring us to rewrite existing tests that use StubToolkit. Thanks, Daniel > > Cheers, > Uwe > > > > > Tom Eugelink <t...@tbee.org> , 22/1/2014 8:46 AM: > > What also is very interesting is headless testing. Let me see if I'm getting > this. > > Normally Jenkins would start a VNC server (xvnc), which provides some kind of > graphics API against which an UI program can paint. JavaFX is not picking > that up however. > But, as I read it, in this case JavaFX starts its own VNC server, so it takes > of everything itself. All one would need to do is specify the > > -Dglass.platform=Monocle -Dmonocle.platform=VNC -Dprism.order=sw > > And additionally a port to run the VNC server on (so multiple Jenkins jobs > don't interfere). > > Am I correct? How can I test this (aka in which version is the VNC server > available)? > > Tom > >
