Release distro testing

[tfennelly]

If it's all the same with everyone else, I'm going to execute the as6 and as7 tests in release/tests-as6 and release/tests-as7.  At the moment, there's some maven jigerypokery going on whereby the unit test classes in tests-as6 and tests-as7 are jared and installed into the local repo, from where they are unzipped and executed during the test lifecycle of jboss-as6 and jboss-as7.  I've no idea why it was done this way.

I'm going to change it back to a more standard maven model, such that jboss-as6 and jboss-as7 just build the distribution and the testing is done in tests-as6 and tests-as7 i.e. no zipping of unit test classes etc.  Let me know if there are any objections.

[mageshbk]

The jigerypokery is because the tests are re-used in jboss-as7, standalone as well as OpenShift Express. More containers when added can re-use the tests as needed. Have a look at my proposed changes in release for consolidation (not saying that it has been accepted), it might even make it more jigerypokery .

[tfennelly]

Ah ok.  Among other things... it makes for an interesting time when you want to run one of the tests in your IDE (for debugging etc).  More jiggerypokery required

I'll have another look at the consolidation work.  Thanks.

[mageshbk]

Here is thread about consolidating http://community.jboss.org/message/627815#627815