ServletUnit -- How to acquire data sources?

I'm evaluating ServletUnit for a new project. It's our first major  
server-side Java project.

ServletUnit looks like a useful framework (as long as it's conforming  
and un-buggy, anyhow), but I've got one question before I move ahead.  
How do I configure ServletUnit to create a JDBC data source? I'd like  
the servlet under test to be able to retrieve a database connection  
from JNDI much as if it were configured in the application server. I  
looked back through the archives and didn't notice any questions of  
the nature.

If that configuration is particularly complex, I'm considering  
backing off from ServletUnit and instead sticking to HttpUnit, with  
local test app servers for each developer; although convenient, and  
potentially powerful for replicating exceptional scenarios, the  
ServletUnit test environment is getting awfully disconnected from a  
realistic deployment environment. Application servers provide their  
own connection pools and soforth, and I assume I couldn't easily get  
a handle on the same implementations while running code under  
ServletUnit, which for most tests strikes me as a risk rather than a  
benefit.

Frankly, I don't think the systems group or co-developers will thank  
me for advocating a JNDI-based configuration, anyhow (“baroque” seems  
rather kind, from every angle), so I'm tempted to roll a .properties- 
based configuration. Do others have experience that to validate or  
refute this opinion?

— G



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