Andrew,

just for my understanding, what is wrong with Jetty that makes our webunit
tests fail ?

(and I agree that CDDL License should be ok, since we have more of them
already)
Harry


2009/3/26 Andrew Jaquith <[email protected]>

> Janne and all --
>
> The web unit tests are bothering me again. Specifically, the fact that
> we can't run them means we aren't getting good visibility to problems
> like the container login issue mentioned on the -user list. So I want
> to fix them. Again.
>
> I've gotten fed up with the bother of fixing the particular part of
> our web unit tests that are broken -- the embedded Jetty container
> that starts the test webapps. Fortunately I found an alternative
> webapp container, Winstone, that does exactly what we need. It's
> simple to run (can be done at the command line), and best of all it's
> TINY. Total additional size is 320k, plus the commons-logging-api jar
> (52k), which for some reason it needs. On the other side, I *think* we
> could get rid of the jetty-* jars in test (240k in total), which means
> the net addition is about 80k.
>
> I think this is worth doing. I'd like to back-port this to 2.8 so we
> can fix the tests there, too. The best part is that this should
> actually work, in the sense that it means we don't have to worry about
> maintaining TestContainer, which was only meant to be good enough to
> barely function. And at the moment it doesn't.
>
> The only question is, is the CDDL ok? It looks like it probably is,
> since we have a license notice for it in docs already.
>
> Andrew
>

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