Re: [MO-java-users] Testing Java Mail API code

[Steve F. <st...@m3...>]

One option I considered, but never got around to, was to implement and 
register a mock mail provider.

S.

James Howe wrote:
> I'm writing a small utility class which will be used to send e-mail.  I 
> would like to write the code test-first as much as possible.  However, I 
> notice that that Java Mail API makes heavy use of static methods to 
> accomplish many of its tasks.  I see that there are Mock implementations 
> of things like Transport and Message in the Mock Objects library, but 
> I'm not sure how to make use of them.  Are there any simple examples of 
> using the MockObjects library to test things that use things like 
> javax.mail.Transport (and related classes?)
> 
> Thanks.
>