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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:56:05 -0400
From: "Prasad Kashyap" <goyathlay.geronimo@gmail.com>
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: [itests] Modify the geronimo-deployment-plugin ?
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Yep.. The last time I checked, I believe Cargo support for the G's
version of Jetty container needed Java 5 support. But we should
revisit that again.

Cheers
Prasad

On 8/8/06, Bill Dudney <bdudney@apache.org> wrote:
> Cool thing is someone else has already done it Cargo currently
> supports G 1.1.
>
> :-)
>
> -bd-
>
> On Aug 8, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Jason Dillon wrote:
>
> > I think that in general it would be good to have cargo support :-)
> >
> > --jason
> >
> >
> > On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Bill Dudney wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Prasad,
> >>
> >> The cargo plugins [1] might be another place to check to start and
> >> stop the server.
> >>
> >> I've used them before for tomcat and its good stuff for running
> >> integration tests.
> >>
> >> And what can I do to help?
> >>
> >> TTFN,
> >>
> >> -bd-
> >>
> >> [1] http://cargo.codehaus.org
> >>
> >> On Aug 4, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Prasad Kashyap wrote:
> >>
> >>> With the m2migration ready to be merged into trunk, I have resumed
> >>> work on the itests for Geronimo again.
> >>>
> >>> Approx 30% of our code is covered by component level tests that are
> >>> embedded in each module. These tests are written as junit test cases
> >>> and run by Maven surefire plugin.
> >>>
> >>> The itests will cover system level tests by testing the
> >>> functionalities that an end-user would use on a fully assembled
> >>> Geronimo distribution. Therefore to the extent possible, our itests
> >>> and it's testcases should use the very same external APIs and
> >>> workflows that a user would use.
> >>>
> >>> We have been using the startRemoteServer and stopRemoteServer
> >>> goals in
> >>> the geronimo-deployment-plugin (g-d-p)  to start and stop a
> >>> server. We
> >>> have always used these "remote" goals and have never used the in-vm
> >>> goals startServer and stopServer.
> >>>
> >>> I propose that we convert the in-vm goals startServer and stopServer
> >>> to be ant mojos from their existing java mojos. Invoking the ant
> >>> mojo
> >>> goals in our itests will ensure that our tests are using the same
> >>> APIs
> >>> that a end-user uses. Thus we shall no longer use internal hooks in
> >>> the code to start and stop the server.
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts ? Comments ? Advice ?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Prasad
> >>
> >
>
>