[CACTUS-162] Add integration with an existing container to ant documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.1
• Component/s: Documentation
• Environment: Tomcat 5.5.4; Java 1.4.2
• Assignee: Vincent Massol
• Reporter: Andy Kriger
• Created: 21/Jan/05 01:36
• Updated: 01/Feb/05 00:11
• Resolved: 01/Feb/05 00:11

Description

The Ant documentation explains a lot about the Ant tasks created for Cactus (cactifywar, cactus, runservertests). If you have an existing container and you have configured that container with Cactus (for Tomcat, in the shared/lib and conf/web.xml), there is no documentation (as far as I could find) that says very simply: to run tests in a properly configured existing container, define the cactus.contextURL property and use the JUnit task as normal.

I just spent a very frustrating day or so needlessly trying to get the cactus or runservertests tasks working. You could save future developers a lot of trouble if this is made more clear in the documentation.