[Ant Wiki] Update of "AntNewbies" by SteveLoughran

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good junit practise

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  I cannot make a case specifically about the above question as I did not submit the question however I do have an interest in having a fileset sort files. The case is for using a fileset to determine the order of JUnits tests to execute.  It would allow for a flow based on package name where we could have a setup package, a test package and a teardown package.  These JUnits would not be typical unit tests but rather integration tests.
  
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+ '''Answer #6 followup followup''' 
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+ You can't rely on Junit behaving predictably in this situation. Junit is a lot more complex than you expect, and far more quirky. Better to have one task/target to set up/deploy, another to run the tasks and a third to do teardown --outside junit. The trick is to not fail the junit task when the tests fail, just set a failure property and <fail> on that later, after doing cleanup. See also Apache Cactus for integrating webapp deployment into a test run.
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  '''Answer #6 followup #2''' - Those needing this functionality should be pleased to know that Ant 1.7 will support a new concept--ResourceCollection--an interface which exposes objects of the existing Ant filelike-type Resource. Fileset, Dirset, Filelist, Path, etc. all implement this new interface. One of the new ResourceCollection implementations is the <sort> collection, which can sort resources according to their natural order, or by one or a combination of ResourceComparators. Several of these have been predefined; however a user can custom-implement and <typedef> his or her own ResourceComparator as well. 
  
  

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