Thanks to speak your mind Costin. At least you answered. I would have liked more feedback from other committers.
For the time being I'll prepare a "cactification" script for Tomcat that will be delivered with Cactus. BTW, is there any problem if we create in cactusland a specially packaged Tomcat version that is cactus-aware ? I'm not sure yet we want to follow that route but if we wanted to do this and put it in the cactus release directory, would you see any problem ? I'll repost in 6 months ... :-) Thanks -Vincent Sidenote: I believe Cactus could very effectively be used as a regression testing tool for the Tomcat project. It has already discovered problems in the past. I haven't looked at the Watchdog project but it could be either a replacement or a complement to it. You should try it at some point. I would love to hear comments of what you don't like/do like. Quick start up guide for Tomcat is available here : http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/1.4/howto_tomcat.html (needs only 10 minutes). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 24 May 2002 19:41 > To: Tomcat Users List > Cc: List Tomcat-Dev > Subject: Re: [Proposal] Tomcat and Cactus (Repost) > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Vincent Massol wrote: > > > I'm reposting in the secret hope that I got no response to this email I > > sent last week because no one saw it in the flood of Tomcat emails ! If > > I get no answer this time, I will understand that no one finds this of > > interest and will try again in 6 months - 1 year :-) > > I think it would be a good idea :-), there is already far too much going > on, with all the new features and changes ( jmx, 4.1, jk2, jasper2, > coyote, etc ). > > Costin > > > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > ---- > > > > Hi Tomcat developers, > > > > This is a proposal to bring Jakarta Tomcat and Jakarta Cactus > > (http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus) closer. I hope you'll like it. > > > > (0) Rationale > > > > Jakarta Cactus is a unit testing framework for testing Servlet, Taglibs > > and Filters. Jakarta Tomcat is a Servlet engine (Servlet, Taglibs, > > Filters). They are both part of the Jakarta community. At the moment, > > there are no existing Servlet container that have an easy way to unit > > test Servlets. The idea is to bring this ease of use to Tomcat by making > > it easy to use Cactus within Tomcat (in other words, add a unit testing > > service to Tomcat). > > > > (1) Scope of the proposal > > > > a) To bundle Cactus within Tomcat so that it provides a unique ease of > > use for Tomcat users who wishes to test their servlet code > > b) To make Cactus the official Tomcat test framework for end users > > > > (1) From the point of view of Tomcat users > > > > By providing the bundling defined in point (2) below, Tomcat end users > > would only have to do the following to test their code (see > > http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/1.4/howto_tomcat.html, steps 4 to 6) : > > > > a) Create Cactus test classes in their WEB-INF/classes directory > > b) Open a browser and type the URL of the Cactus test runner, passing > > the name of the test class (see the link above for details) > > > > (2) Cactus bundling in Tomcat > > > > "Bundling" Cactus in Tomcat means (see steps 1 to 3 on the above link) : > > > > a) Adding the following jars to common/lib : cactus.jar, junit.jar, > > httpclient.jar, aspectjrt.jar (total of 423 KB) > > b) Adding the Cactus servlet test runner and redirector servlet and > > mappings in conf/web.xml > > > > (3) Versions > > > > The target Tomcat version for this proposal is 4.0 and greater. The > > Cactus one is 1.4 and greater (note that Cactus 1.4 is not released yet > > and is still in CVS - It can be downloaded from the nightly build). > > > > Comments, ideas ? > > > > Thank you > > -Vincent (from the Cactus team) > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
