Configurable Test Server

[mwringe]

The sso test cases need for the server to have certain configurations in order for it to work (specifically setting up ssl and certificates). SSL is not the default configuration for JBossAS or Tomcat, so it would be wise to be able to setup a configurable server test setting that the test can setup itself. Cargo currently does this, but I am running into the following issues:

1) embedded tomcat: incompatible with the jars we currently have in /thirdparty, needs an older version of tomcat to work (tomcat5.0 not tomcat5.5), needs to download all the catalina jars for the tests to work. Another issue is that the embedded tomcat runs within the same jvm, so extra care has to be setup to run these tests from ant/maven to ensure a proper endorsed dirs.

2) installed JBossAS: configures the application server and not JBossWeb, so many of the features that we need are not available. With this option we wouldn't need to download extra jars to run the tests.

3) installed tomcat: I have not looked into this situation that much, would require that the user downloads and installs tomcat themselves.

Thoughts?

[julien1]

In the web module I have been able to automate the execution of jboss and tomcat containers with static and dynamic deployments of war files and also the capability to put classes at the shared classpath level so they can be seen by the application server or tomcat classloader.

[mwringe]

Does it allow for other custom configurations of the servers? like changing ports, enabling ssl, ...

[julien1]

It allows customization to a certain degree.

Standards things like changing port or using SSL are handled.

But for instance tomcat has an important setting for portals called emptySessionPath on the in server.xml. I had to modify cargo to add the support of the feature.

Here you can get the list of all the configuration settings: http://cargo.codehaus.org/Tomcat+5.x.

[julien1]

BTW look at "Standalone Local Configuration Properties"