RE: starting tomcat to run servlet tests

[Stephane Bailliez <sb...@imediation.com>]

I don't think this is related to ant developpers but rather to cactus user
mailing list right ?

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/mailinglist.html

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 Stephane Bailliez 
 Software Engineer, Paris - France 
 iMediation - http://www.imediation.com 
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company. 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: steven@sferics.com [mailto:steven@sferics.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:42 PM
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: starting tomcat to run servlet tests
> 
> 
> Hi, I'm new to this list and have spent a while looking through the 
> archives for some info on this so forgive me if it's come up before.
> 
> I want to use the optional task to start tomcat, run my servlet tests 
> then stop tomcat but I've come across a problem.  The code 
> takes a url 
> and polls that until it get's a response so it knows that tomcat is 
> running before running tests. My problem is that I have quite a 
> complicated initialisation servlet which takes a short while 
> to complete 
> but before it does, tomcat returns a 404(file not found code). This 
> however is interpreted as a sign that tomcat is ready so ant 
> starts to 
> run the tests. They fail. My solution is to put a further 
> check in the 
> code to make sure that a 404 is not returned before continuing. I'm 
> quite happy to do this and submit the code back in but I 
> wanted to check 
> that no-one else has done this or that there's not a better 
> solution out 
> there already.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> 
> Steven Shand.
>