I don't quite understand the reason why you would want to run the test cases before the app server is started. Can you just run a task to start the appserver, then run the tests.
Another possiblity. Are you using an Http Server on port 80, then the appserver hooked to another port. You may be getting a response from an http server before the app server is ready. FYI - This does happen with IBM Http Server and WebSphere app server. If this is the case... Start app server, then start http server, then start test cases.... Hope it helps. Nick -----Original Message----- From: Keith Hatton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 4:37 AM To: Ant-User (E-mail 2) Subject: Waiting for server to start Hi all, Part of my build file starts an application server, performs test cases against it, and shuts down the server. I'm successfully using the <parallel> task to achive this, conceptually like so: | +-----+-----+ | | start wait | | | run tests | | | stop | | +-----+-----+ | My problem is the "wait" part. I have been using <waitfor> and <url> to check for the app server's URL, but recently I have noticed that sometimes the URL is available before the server initialisation has really completed, which can lead to spurious test failures, and (for very small projects) even the possibility that the "stop" task is called before the server has really started. The server is JBoss, and strictly I should be checking the server output for a text string. Any ideas on the best way to do this? (Current "start" target): <echo>Starting JBoss ...</echo> <exec dir="${jboss.home}/bin" executable="cmd.exe" os="Windows 2000" output="jboss.out"> <arg line="/c run.bat"/> <env key="NOPAUSE" value="true"/> </exec> <echo>JBoss has stopped</echo> (Current "wait" target ... the <sleep> is a hack to work around the problem): <echo>Waiting for JBoss ...</echo> <waitfor maxwait="120" maxwaitunit="second" checkevery="20" checkeveryunit="second"> <http url="http://localhost:8080/jmx-console"/> </waitfor> <sleep seconds="10"/> <echo>JBoss has started</echo> Thanks for any suggestions Keith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity identified in the alias address of this message and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message from your system. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
