[feedback wanted] Cactus 1.4 beta 1 and beyond

[Vincent Massol <vm...@octo.com>]

Hi Cactusers,

Cactus 1.4 beta 1 was out yesterday. The idea is to run the beta for
some time (let's say 2 weeks) and if there are no serious bugs release
it at that time. If there are important bugs, we will extend the beta
period and consider doing a beta 2.

Your feedback is important! 

If we don't receive feedback, we'll assume everything works fine and the
bugs will have to wait to Cactus 1.5 ... :-)

You may also start giving your wishlist for Cactus 1.5. Here's mine :

- finish the JMS unit tests for unit testing MDBs

- use Jetty to provide a fully packaged Cactus that does not need to be
deployed. Simply run :

<junit>
[...]
  <jvmarg value="cactus.initializer =
org.apache.cactus.util.jetty.JettyInitializer"/>
[...]
  <classpath>
    [...]cactus jars
    [...]jetty.jar
    [...]my tests and classes under test
  </classpath>
</junit>

and that's all! Which means it can also be run inside any IDE in a snap.
The winning factors are:
  - Jetty can be completely configured using java configuration code (no
need for web.xml for example and no need to deploy the application). In
other words Jetty is fully embeddable.
  - Jetty starts fast (less than 1 seconds on my computer!)

Of course, the goal would then not be to test on the real production
server but rather to provide a fast environment to run the Cactus unit
tests on a minute to minute basis (in the same way as Mock Objects tests
are run all the time).

- try adding EJB redirectors (lowest priority compared to the other 2
items)

Thanks
-Vincent


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