Re: [Junit-devel] assertThrows(myObject).methodCall()

[David S. <da...@sa...>]

Your licensing question is a very good one.  I find I have to remind
myself anew of licensing issues each time I try to give a good
answer--I'll get back to you...

   David Saff

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Thomas Mueller
<tho...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I started writing the class proxy generator. So far my code writes a
> <ClassName>Proxy.java file, which is then compiled (and loaded using a
> custom classloader). The source code detour works well and is simple
> (240 lines, http://code.google.com/p/h2database/source/browse/trunk/h2/src/test/org/h2/test/utils/ProxyCodeGenerator.java),
> but obviously requires a Java compiler (either the JDK, or the Eclipse
> compiler; by the way Javac 1.5 requires "method(..) throws
> *RuntimeException*" which is funny). The next step is to generate the
> bytecode directly.
>
> Would it be an option to re-use the Apache Harmony proxy generator
> source code? Not "as is", but as a starting point. JUnit is "Common
> Public License - v 1.0", is using the Apache license for this part an
> option? If not, I could implement the bytecode generator myself (from
> scratch), but that would be more work. Or I could search for another
> project with a better license.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>