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Posted to cactus-user@jakarta.apache.org by Vincent Massol <vm...@pivolis.com> on 2003/10/26 16:52:52 UTC
[ANN] Cactus 1.5-rc1 has been released
The Cactus project is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5-rc1
Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.
Goals
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The main focus for version 1.5-rc1 was on usability. We had several user
requests to make Cactus easier to get started with. The web site has
been overhauled to provide better doc navigation and contains several
new tutorials. In addition, several new front
ends for Cactus have been added: Ant integration, Maven integration
Jetty integration, and an experimental Eclipse plugin.
It should be noted that the Eclipse plugin for Cactus is not part of
Cactus 1.5-rc1 as it is still experimental. It is available in Cactus
nightly build area (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/downloads.html).
Your feedback is important to make it production ready. If you're an
Eclipse user, make sure you try it (it is documented on
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/eclipse/index.html).
Main new features
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The following main features have been added since Cactus 1.4.1:
* Added support for begin()/end() that are run before and after each
test on the client side (mirrors setUp()/tearDown() which are run
before and after each test on the server side).
* Special Jetty integration to automatically start Jetty when executing
a test suite
* Added support for Form-based authentication
* Added support for i8n
* Added new JspTagLifecycle class to help unit test taglibs
* Added support for JBoss in Ant integration
* Added support for server-side XSLT when running Cactus tests from a
browser
* New Ant integration (<cactifywar> and <cactus> Ant tasks). Note that
version 1.5-rc1 has added support for WebLogic 7.x as compared to
version 1.5-beta1.
* Added ability to run pure JUnit tests seamlessly on the server side
* Lots of other new features. For a full feature list, see
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/features.html
Changes
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Please check the Changes page at
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/changes.html for a full list of the
changes in version 1.5-rc1.
Known limitations and bugs:
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* Support for WebLogic 6.x has not been tested. This is because BEA is
no longer providing a download for WebLogic 6.x (unless you're a BEA
customer).
* [Bug 21484] "ClassCastException when casting WebAppRequestDispatcher"
* [Bug 23978] "Cactus doesn't properly integrate w/HttpUnit. External
Javascript generates NullPointerException". Note that this bug has not
been verified yet and may not be a bug (the js.jar may simply have
been
missing from the bug reporter's classpath).
* [Bug 21237] "CactifyWarTask duplicates init-param lines in existing
web.xml servlet tag".
* [Bug 17077] "Code page problems under WebSphere z/OS".
* [Bug 23653] "CactifyWar task throws OutOfMemory Error with large WAR
file".
* [Bug 23854] "Clustered servlet test results are not accurately
reported".
* [Bug 17933] "FormAuthentication assumes "localhost" when adding
cookies".
* [Bug 24054] "Sometimes, JBoss is stopped before it has finished
starting".
* [Bug 24072] "Failure to start jetty prevents subsequent jetty tests
from
running".
* Some binary incompatiblity was introduced by the refactoring of the
XXXTestCase class hierarchy. Whereas it was previously inheriting from
AbstractWebTestCase and AbstractTestCase, it is now simply inheriting
from JUnit TestCase. Thus all non-public API are now not visible from
users (as they should be). If you had some framework compiled with
Cactus 1.4.1 and using some methods from AbstractWebTestCase or
AbstractTestCase, you'll need to recompile it with Cactus 1.5-rc1 or
you might get a NoClassDefFoundError exception. We'll be more careful
in
the future.
For more information about Cactus, please visit
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/.
Have fun,
-The Cactus team