Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Reddin
On May 1, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Wendy Smoak wrote: Thanks. Which build are you using? I'd like to arrange Standalone Tiles into modules for Maven 2 so that the example app can live beside tiles-core, rather than in a separate sandbox project. Yes, that would be awesome! I am now using the Mave

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-05-01 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 5/1/06, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Done. It's not much to speak of, but it's a start. I checked it into sandbox/tiles-test. The lib directory is empty. It will need the following jars to run: Thanks. Which build are you using? I'd like to arrange Standalone Tiles into modu

Re: [action1] Improving our tests -- long [was Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help]

2006-05-01 Thread Don Brown
If infrastructure would approve my request to run Jive on an ASF server, we wouldn't be having this discussion :) In the meantime, you can "watch" the WebWork developer forum, which contains the chat transcripts posted each night: http://forums.opensymphony.com/watches!add.jspa?forumID=32 Don

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Reddin
On Apr 28, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Wendy Smoak wrote: Craig mentioned HtmlUnit, which we're now using with Cargo to confirm that each Action 1 example app will at least deploy and display its default page. If you'll check in the app you mentioned, Done. It's not much to speak of, but it's a start

Re: [action1] Improving our tests -- long [was Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help]

2006-04-29 Thread Martin Cooper
On 4/28/06, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, after a long winded discussion on the WW Chat line(no need to rehash, it's in your inbox -- or will be)... I've seen people make this type of comment before, but I have yet to see any of these chat transcripts show up in my mailbox

Re: [action1] Improving our tests -- long [was Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help]

2006-04-28 Thread James Mitchell
One thing that I might have blurred the lines on is that there are basically 2 things being proposed here with respect to TestGen4Web. #1 - The ability to easily create test scripts for cases that can only be proven and solved via a deployed app (and without cactus) #2 - A set of scr

[action1] Improving our tests -- long [was Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help]

2006-04-28 Thread James Mitchell
So, after a long winded discussion on the WW Chat line(no need to rehash, it's in your inbox -- or will be)... several ideas were mentioned, and so I thought I'd throw it out there for comment. Patrick has graciously offered to provide the Struts community with free beer and back rubs!!

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-04-28 Thread James Mitchell
Speaking of testing.I recently came across a really cool plugin for FireFox. It's called TestGen4Web and it let's you record and save a browser session. What the heck is a browser session? Oh, I'm glad you asked. It is the set of step that you (as a user) do within a browser windo

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-04-28 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 3/21/06, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As for the test cases, I'm not very familiar with Cactus or some other web app testing packages. So to save time, I've been testing using a simple web application and clicking through. ... I can also check my test app into the sandbox if it w

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Paul Benedict
>> there's no current implementatino of things like MockPageContext Craig, there is one in the Spring Framework library. :) Spring contains mocks of the servlet api. The library doesn't depend on Spring, but they have their own mocks. Spring uses the MockPageContext to write unit tests for their

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Craig McClanahan wrote: The Shale test framework classes include mock implementations of essentially all APIs in the servlet spec (as well as JSF, but that's not really relevant here). As such, it can be used as a source of things like MockServletContext, Mock

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 3/22/06, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 21, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Craig McClanahan wrote: > > > For a library claiming to be "standalone", I would be a little > > cautious > > about depending on either set of mock object APIs. > > Certainly, no such dependencies should be in the

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mar 22, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: It is not an issue anymore because I wrote a workaround in Dimensions code. It simply clears the "path" attribute of a definition when it's extended (overloaded) when the extended definition does not specify the "path" attribute. The wor

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Antonio Petrelli
Greg Reddin ha scritto: Seems a couple of weeks ago you sent an email about a potential bug or missing piece. We had a short exchange about it and it fell off my radar as I was trying to make sure I understood what your need was. It was something about Tiles definitions with extends and path

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mar 21, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Craig McClanahan wrote: For a library claiming to be "standalone", I would be a little cautious about depending on either set of mock object APIs. Certainly, no such dependencies should be in the core software, but dependencies in the test cases are acceptable

Re: [OT] Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mar 22, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: Greg Reddin ha scritto: On Mar 22, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: Antonio Petrelli ha scritto: I can work on it for about 1-2 hour a day. I meant one or two hours a day, not half an hour... It was a bit ambiguous...

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mar 22, 2006, at 2:35 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: Uh? Who called me? I obviously will be pleased to help if you want :-) I could take my experience with Dimensions to add some missing pieces. Anyway, if I will be so lucky to help you all, notice that I am very busy, I can work on it for

[OT] Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Antonio Petrelli
Greg Reddin ha scritto: On Mar 22, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: Antonio Petrelli ha scritto: I can work on it for about 1-2 hour a day. I meant one or two hours a day, not half an hour... It was a bit ambiguous... If you have that much time to spend on it then I envy you :-)

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mar 22, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Antonio Petrelli wrote: Antonio Petrelli ha scritto: I can work on it for about 1-2 hour a day. I meant one or two hours a day, not half an hour... It was a bit ambiguous... If you have that much time to spend on it then I envy you :-) -

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Antonio Petrelli
Antonio Petrelli ha scritto: I can work on it for about 1-2 hour a day. I meant one or two hours a day, not half an hour... It was a bit ambiguous... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-22 Thread Antonio Petrelli
Greg Reddin ha scritto: In addition I'm sure there are things that have been raised that I haven't addressed. especially from Antonio Petrelli. Uh? Who called me? I obviously will be pleased to help if you want :-) I could take my experience with Dimensions to add some missing pieces. Anyway,

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-21 Thread Martin Cooper
On 3/21/06, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/21/06, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 21, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Gary VanMatre wrote: > > > > > I suppose that the choice of the context object could favor action > > > versus shale for a test framework. > > > >

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-21 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 3/21/06, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 21, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Gary VanMatre wrote: > > > I suppose that the choice of the context object could favor action > > versus shale for a test framework. > > > > Since I'm in the JSF fan club, I'd argue that we could implement > > the

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-21 Thread Gary VanMatre
>From: Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Mar 21, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Gary VanMatre wrote: > > > I suppose that the choice of the context object could favor action > > versus shale for a test framework. > > > > Since I'm in the JSF fan club, I'd argue that we could implement > > the Ext

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-21 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mar 21, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Gary VanMatre wrote: I suppose that the choice of the context object could favor action versus shale for a test framework. Since I'm in the JSF fan club, I'd argue that we could implement the ExternalContext interface since the JSF API will soon be a given. I

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-21 Thread Gary VanMatre
>From: Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Mar 21, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Gary VanMatre wrote: > > > I wonder if the shale test framework can be leveraged here. There > > are mock objects for the servlet API. > > I need to take a closer look at that. I'm using Struts Test Case in > a few pl

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-21 Thread Greg Reddin
On Mar 21, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Gary VanMatre wrote: I wonder if the shale test framework can be leveraged here. There are mock objects for the servlet API. I need to take a closer look at that. I'm using Struts Test Case in a few places in Standalone Tiles already. 2) moving on to Miles

Re: Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-21 Thread Gary VanMatre
>From: Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've just checked in the last taglib refactoring work that I can > think of. That turned out to be a much smaller chunk of work than I > had thought. If you're following the wiki page[1] that means > Milestone 2 in the 4-step process to release is larg

Standalone Tiles: Status and Call for Help

2006-03-21 Thread Greg Reddin
I've just checked in the last taglib refactoring work that I can think of. That turned out to be a much smaller chunk of work than I had thought. If you're following the wiki page[1] that means Milestone 2 in the 4-step process to release is largely complete. There's one remaining gaping