In-container bean testing with Cactus

Hi,



Perhaps I am trying to re-invent the wheel and there are better tools
for my purposes out there. I generated the test suites for some web
services using Axis WSDL2Java with -t option and now I just pass the
names of those generated classes as parameters to ServletTestRunner.
I've also modified cactus-report.xsl mark slow-running tests. So,
essentially I am using Cactus just as Web interface for "pinging" these
web services.



I have to rebuild the project for each environment every time I make any
change because the service endpoint locations are hard-coded in their
corresponding ServiceLocator classes. I wish I could externalize this
configuration to JNDI and set these properties with something like
Spring. I created non-singleton beans for the ServerLocator classes in
applicationContext.xml and I can get a hold of ApplicationContext
through ServletContext if I extend ServletTestRunner. But the TestSuite
classes are not instantiated by the servlet, their names are just passed
to WebappTestRunner, which constructs them using Reflection API. So, for
now I just have the ServiceLocators read things like endpoint locations
from a properties file. I am wondering, though, if others would find
ServletBeanTestRunner that takes bean names rather than class names as
parameters useful and how I could implement it.



Thanks,



Eugene Weinstein





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