Unit testing servlets (WAS Re: [Mockobjects-java-dev] AOP : Aspect Oriented Programming)

[Vincent M. <vm...@oc...>]

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From: "Charles Anderson" <ca...@id...>
To: <moc...@li...>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Mockobjects-java-dev] AOP : Aspect Oriented Programming

[snip]
> Let me lurk a bit to figure out where I might be useful.  (Normally, I
> wouldn't shoot my mouth off right after joining a list, but the AOP thread
> was something that caught my eye.)

:-). Don't worry, shoot ... we're looking for any help including the most
important thing : feedback

> At the moment, my personal interest in
> mocking (if that's the correct verb) the servlet stuff, since that's what
> I'm implementing and what I personally need to test.
>

Another alternative or rather complementary approach for unit testing
servlets, JSP, taglibs, filters and EJB is to use Cactus
(http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus). There is a simple and
comparative paper between Mock Objects vs In-Container testing (that's what
Cactus advocates) on
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/mockobjects.html ...

-Vincent