Re: A free swing milestone?

[David Gilbert]

Mark Wielaard wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 17:17 +0000, David Gilbert wrote:
>  
>
> > Today I was able to load and run to completion the JCommon test suite via JUnit's 
> > Swing-based test runner using JamVM and GNU Classpath CVS - here is a screen shot:
> >
> > http://www.object-refinery.com/classpath/junit-free.png
> >    
>
> Very cool!
>
> How would I run this myself? I downloaded jcommon-1.0.0-rc1 but could
> find any instructions on how to compile it or run the test suite.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>  
Hi Mark,

I ran this against my local tree, but if you have downloaded the latest 
version of JCommon, a couple of steps should get it to run.  This 
assumes you have unpacked the download archive and you've changed to the 
top level directory (the one with the README.txt file in it):

(1)  Unpack the test classes from the precompiled jar file:

$ unzip jcommon-1.0.0-rc1-junit.jar

I needed to do this so that the JUnit test runner could automatically 
find the tests - it's possible there is another way, but I don't know it.

(2)  Run the JUnit test runner with the correct classpath to find the 
precompiled JUnit tests, the JCommon classes, and the junit.jar file:

$ jamvm -classpath .:jcommon-1.0.0-rc1.jar:lib/junit.jar 
junit.swingui.TestRunner

Don't forget the first '.' in the classpath to include the current 
directory in addition to the jar files.

To run the tests from the GUI, I clicked on the '...' button which 
brings up a list of all the tests found.  I clicked on the 
JCommonTestSuite option in the list (it includes all the tests), clicked 
'OK', and then clicked 'Run'.  There are other ways that work too, and a 
fair few that will get the application into a bad state (but we can work 
on that).

I think this (the JUnit GUI test runner) is a good application for us to 
polish up as a showcase for our free swing, because it is relatively 
simple, yet it is recognisable as a "real-world" application to the 
majority of Java developers (most of whom know about JUnit already).

Regards,

Dave

P.S.  If you prefer compiling the source code yourself before running 
the tests, change to the 'ant' subdirectory and type 'ant compile' 
(assuming you have Ant installed).  But the above steps will work fine 
with the precompiled jar files included in the JCommon download.