I agree. I tend to use businsess facades that the actions get from an AbstractFactory.
For testing, it instantiate a test Factory that delivers fake (mock) business facades. In the container, it instantiates a real Factory that delivers up business facades that talks to Stateless session beans. -----Original Message----- From: Bryce Fischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 6:01 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cactus vs StrutsTestCase I agree. There are two frameworks I've seen to test struts based web stuff. The easiest to use is StrutsTestCase (the other is mockrunner). It can use both a Mock container as well as Cactus. I haven't gotten around to using the CactusTestCase, as I do most of my unit testing without the overhead of the container (to me, that's for integration testing). The Mock container does a good job I feel. I do have an EJB layer, but I use an interface for my Struts delegate methods. This allows me to send a Mock'ed object of my interface to my Struts Action class to test, without having to go through the EJB stuff (For EJB stuff, I'm using MockEJB, but that's a different email). Nice thing about using Mocks for my delegate classes, is that I can simulate lots of different things. I can tell it to pass anything back to the Action servlet, including throwing exceptions. This allows me to make sure my Action Servlets are handling all kinds of situations. HTH > Hi, Ashikuzzaman�� > > I use StrutsTestCase to test my struts-based web tier action. Because StrutsTestCase > use mock object to mock the container. So you needn't start your container(tomcat or jboss) > to test your action class. It's a very fast way to test. > However, StrutsTestCase can not mock EJB call. So if your web application contains EJB > you should use cactus, which can start jboss automatically to test your code, or you use the MockEJB to mock your ejb call. -- Bryce Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
