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On 9/27/11 3:10 PM, Kiran Ayyagari wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny<elecharny@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> yesterday, I tried to cut a small external project, demonstrating how to use
>> our jars to test LDAP. It was not so easy, as I had to include many jars in
>> order to have the code working.
>>
> yeah, had experienced this before (was used to solve it the hard way
> by gathering the various pom file contents together to make this work)
> glad to see this being solved
>> Lately, we modified the apacheds-all pom.xml (not yet committed) to generate
>> a unique jar with Pierre-Arnaud (the shade plugin was misconfigured) and
>> now, I'm able to run a standalone test including only those jars :
>>
>> - junit
>> - apacheds-core-annotations
>> - apacheds-core-integ
>> - apacheds-server-annotations
>> - apacheds-server-integ
>> - apacheds-test-framework
>> - apacheds-all
>>
>> This is pretty convenient to be able to have all the jars gathered in
>> apacheds-all, but we need to go a bit farther : the apacheds-test-framework
>> should also gather the junit, apacheds-core-annotations,
>> apacheds-core-integ, apacheds-server-annotations and apacheds-server-integ
>> jars in one single jar. It would make possible to have two jars only to
>> include when writing a standalone test application.
>>
>> One other option would be to create two apacheds-all jars :
>> - the one we currently produce, with all the needed dependencies except the
>> test ones
>> - and a apacheds-test-all which includes everything.
>>
>> What would be the best solution ?
>>
> I would sugegst we don't include the test modules i,e core-integ and
> server-integ
> ideally apacheds-all should contain the testframework, core and server
> annotation modules
> (cause they are not tests by themselves) so having apacheds-all jar
> should let us write and run a
> test.

I would rather not include anything related to tests (ie xxx-integ nor 
test-framework) in apacheds-all, as it's really intended to be used for 
embedding the server.


>
> is there any special reason to include the tests?

I'd like to provide a simple jar for people who want to write tests for 
a LDAP server.


-- 
Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com