StrutsTestCase versions
The current release of STC is 2.0. Note, that there is a
version for servlet specifications 2.2 and 2.3, and you should
pick the version that corresponds to the level supported by your
web server. The war-file mentioned above includes the 2.3-
version. The STC download contains, first of all, an STC jar-
file which you must place in your classpath. The rest of the
download is documentation (including JavaDoc) and examples.
Here's a Windows bat-file, setcp.bat, which you
can use for setting up the proper classpath for compiling and
running an STC program testing the DVD Library application. The
setup assumes Tomcat, but it should be possible to use it with
any servlet container, after making minor modifications:
Listing 2: setcp.bat - a Windows bat-file that sets the
correct classpath
@echo off
set TOMCATROOT=d:\apache\jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12\
set APPDIR=%TOMCATROOT%\webapps\dvdlib
set LIBDIR=%APPDIR%\web-inf\lib\
set CP=.
set CP=%CP%;%TOMCATROOT%common\lib\servlet.jar
set CP=%CP%;%APPDIR%
set CP=%CP%;%LIBDIR%struts.jar
set CP=%CP%;%LIBDIR%strutstest-2.0.0.jar
set CP=%CP%;%LIBDIR%junit.jar
rem Remove the 'rem' if jdk1.4 is NOT used
rem set CP=%CP%;%TOMCATROOT%common\lib\xerces.jar
rem JDOM is used by the DVDManager class
set CP=%CP%;%TOMCATROOT%common\lib\jdom.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CP%
set CP=
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To use it you must:
- set TOMCATROOT to the directory where you've installed
Tomcat.
- set APPDIR to the web server directory where the dvdlib web
application is placed.
Important: This directory must
be in the classpath in order for STC to find struts-
config.xml.
- set LIBDIR to the dvdlib directory containing jar-files.
As you can see it's used to include jar-files for STC, JUnit,and Struts.
- you'll also need a servlet jar-file, a JDOM jar-file, and if you don't
use jdk 1.4 (which I strongly recommend you do), an XML parser
like Xerces. I've
placed these files in Tomcat's common/lib
directory.
To simplify things I place my STC test programs in the same
directory as the dvdlib application (WEB-
INF/classes/hansen/playground). If the setcp bat-file
is placed in the classes directory you can compile and
run an STC program with this recipe (on Windows):
Table 1: The recipe for compiling and running STC
programs
- open a DOS-window
- go to the classes directory
- issue the command "setcp"
- issue the command "set" to verify that setcp worked as
it should
- to compile enter "javac hansen\playground\<name_of_testprogram>.java
- to run the compiled program enter "java
hansen.playground.<name_of_testprogram>
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We're now ready to run our first STC program, but first a
quick recap. STC tests your Struts actions, and the place
where they're defined are in the struts-config file.
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