I'm trying to set up a conf call with the junit team, to see how best
to go with the junit4 support. I am currently thinking
-<junit> stays 3.8.x only.
-we add a new junit antlib for junit4 support, design it to work on
1.6.5 and 1.7
-maybe hand off ownership of the antlib to the junit team, if they
want to gain that tight coupling and take on the costs.
That sounds like a good plan - it would be much better if the JUnit
people can support their own JUnit antlib
WL itself hurts. I know people hate jboss for its worst-in-class
classloader, but it doesnt make such a mess of your machine. Mind you,
I've never tried WebSphere.
Ah yes WL is one of my least favourite pieces of software - the 'hacked
up not quite Ant' that it sticks on your path (before your current
ANT_HOME), the 'not eclipse' IDE (WL Workshop) - great let's strip out
the good features of eclipse (refactoring support, CVS/SVN support) and
leave you with a bloated IDE that only works with WL, the jrocket vm -
which doesn't like code compiled with the Sun JDK, but interestingly has
no problems with code compiled with Jikes. A whole host of wizzy gui
configurators/installers, but the shell scripts are placed in different
location depending on linux/windows. And a hot-deploy mode that doesn't
work (unless you use the web application / server admin tool to deploy)
- which defeats the point of the 'special' bundled Ant, or the supplied
shell scripts.
I've used a very old version of WebSphere (3.5) and it sucked, given the
time WL 8+ has had since 2000 (when I used that bug-ridden steaming pile
of <expletive deleted>), and coming from a completely different company,
I hoped for something much better - but no it sucked too, but in a
different way. I'm not sure, but I suspect that all J2EE appservers
suck, I just haven't had the misfortune to try them all (yet).
(sorry had to rant about WL, two projects using it back-to-back and it
doesn't do anything for me - tomcat + spring or apache + rails would be
much better for both projects)
Kev
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