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# Summary of changes News and Events Last 15 days web site changes Release changes # Last 15 days web site changes These are the changes that happened to the Cactus web site for the past 15 days since the last site update (excluding the todo and changes pages which are modified too often): <no changes> # Release changes ## Cactus versions newer than 1.7 (released on ...) Since version 1.7.1 of Cactus all changes are now recorded using Apache's JIRA. The list of changes for an unreleased version is available in the JIRA roadmap report and the released version changes in the JIRA changelog report. (VMA) ## Cactus 1.7 (released on 28 Jan 2005) Tested with Orion 1.6.0b, Orion 2.0.4, Tomcat 4.1.31, Tomcat 5.0.29, Resin 2.1.14, Resin 3.0.9, JBoss 3.2.6. (VMA) Added support for Resin 3.0.9 and above. (VMA) Upgraded following dependencies: Commons BeanUtils to 1.7.0, Commons Collections to 3.1, Commons HttpClient to 2.0.2 and Commons Logging to 1.0.4. (VMA) Add attribute `jvmArgs` in the container tasks. (FAL) Thanks to Matheus Bianconi. Fixes issue CACTUS-158. The `<resin3x>` element of the `<cactus>` task is now correctly using the user-defined port (`port` attribute). The port was previously hardcoded to `8080`. (VMA) The Cactus Servlet Test Runner now re-initializes the Cactus configuration when it is called the first time (in its `init()` method). This allows testing several webapps in the same JVM (i.e without restarting the container). (VMA) The `<jboss3x>` container element now supports running JBoss in a temporary directory, specified by the `tmpdir` attribute. In addition, by using the `configDir` attribute, you can now specify a directory where you have stored a custom JBoss server configuration (identified by the `config` attribute). This configuration will be copied to the tmp directory and used to configure JBoss. (VMA) Fixes issue CACTUS-119. Cactus was failing with a `NullPointerException` if the response was not returning any output stream (which happens if `response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_NO_CONTENT)` is called for example). (VMA) Thanks to Maxwell Grender-Jones. Fixes issue CACTUS-123. Fixed "`java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "localhost"`" error that was happening when using the <cactus> task with JBoss 3.0.8. It was due to the fact that JBoss 3.0.8 does not support the new `--server` parameter which works with newer versions of JBoss 3.x (VMA) Thanks to Raphael Philipe Mendes da Silva. Fixes issue CACTUS-122. Added new `<resin2x>` and `<resin3x>` tasks to start/stop Resin 2.x/3.x instances. (VMA) Building Cactus from the sources now requires Ant 1.6.1+ (Ant 1.6.2 if you're using JDK 5). The Cactus build also been simplified a lot and external libraries are automatically downloaded from ibiblio.org if not present on the file system. (VMA) Ensure faster shutdown times with WebLogic 7.x by using the `FORCESHUTDOWN` WebLogic command instead of the graceful one. (VMA) Fixes issue CACTUS-120. The `JettyTestSetup` class now checks if the Jetty server is already started and only starts it if it isn't running. It also does not stops it if it was running before `JettyTestSetup` was called. This is useful when you have a master test suite and when you also wish to run your tests one by one. (VMA) Fixes issue CACTUS-118. ## Cactus 1.6.1 (released on 14 May 2004) An error was introduced in the Servlet Test Runner during the internal package refactoring that happened in Cactus 1.6. The `XMLTransformer` could not be loaded and it resulted in a `ClassNotFoundException` exception. (VMA) Fixes issue CACTUS-107. ## Cactus 1.6 (released on 08 May 2004) The `ServletTestRunner` now looks for am optional `cactus.properties` file and reads its properties. If not defined it sets default values for the context URL of the Cactus redirectors and for their mappings. (VMA) Updated web site documentation for enabling Cactus logging. (VMA) Due to some internal package restructuration (all non public API were moved to `internal` packages), the `jspredirector.jsp` file was modified. If you have installed this file manually somewhere, you'll need to remember to update it. (VMA) Big internal restructuration: we have moved all the non public API classes to java packages with the name `internal`. For example the package `org.apache.cactus.internal` is a package containing some internal implementation. You should not use any internal class in your own development as these classes may change at any time in the future. If you find you need access to some internal class, please send an email to the Cactus mailing class explaining the reason and we may open up some API/SPI. (VMA) Removed `org.apache.cactus.util.HttpURLConnection` class. It was a Commons HttpClient wrapper on top of the `java.net.HttpURLConnection` class. However, this class is now fully integrated in the Commons HttpClient jar. (VMA) Added new optional nested `<containerclasspath>` element for the `<cactus>` task. It allows specifying additional jars that will be put in the classpath used to start/stop the specified containers. (VMA) Removed ability to choose different HTTP connection helpers. The only one supported now is the Commons HttpClient one provided internally by Cactus. Thus the `cactus.connectionHelper.classname` property is now removed. (VMA) Removed deprecated classes in the `org.apache.cactus.ant` packages as they have been deprecated for a long time. (VMA) Fixed bug in `HttpServletRequestWrapper.include()` where the passed request was not the original request. The problem was only apparent with Tomcat 3.x. (VMA) Added support for Tomcat 3.3.2 (note that this required adding the commons-logging jar to the Tomcat bootstrap classpath). (VMA) In the Form authentication code, changed the response check logic for the pre-authentication step to accept any status code less than 400. It was previously only accepting a 302 code but different servers are implementing it differently. (VMA) Thanks to Kazuhito Suguri. Added new `ServletContextWrapper.setInitParameters()` which allows to programatically define Context init parameters (as if they had been entered in `web.xml` using the `<context-param>` element. (VMA) Added support in the Ant integration `webxmlmerge` task for merging `<context-param>` elements. (VMA) Updated the version of Commons HttpClient in the Cactus distribution to 2.0 final. (VMA) Added new `FormAuthentication.setExpectedAuthResponse(int)` that allows to set the expected HTTP response code for an authentication request which should be successful. If not specified, it defaults to `HttpURLConnection.HTTP_MOVED_TEMP`. (VMA) Thanks to Kazuhito Suguri. Added new `FormAuthentication.setSessionCookieName(String)` that allows to set the security cookie name to a name different than `JSESSIONID` (the default). (VMA) Thanks to Kazuhito Suguri. `FormAuthentication` no longer assumes "localhost" when adding cookies. (VMA) Thanks to Kazuhito Suguri. Fixes issue CACTUS-37. Fixed bug in Cactus wrapper implementation of `request.getPathTranslated()` which was failing when there was no simulated URL defined (i.e. no call to `WebRequest.setURL()`). (VMA) Thanks to Paul Green. Migrated to Apache license 2.0. (VMA) The `<cactus>` task now also cleans custom tmp directories (passed using the `tmpdir` attribute). (VMA) Thanks to Daniel Rabe. Fixes issue CACTUS-79. Added support for specifying which JNDI port to use when shutting down JBoss 3.x in the Cactus Ant integration. The `<jboss3x>` nested element now supports the new `jndiport` attribute for specifying the port. If not specified, it defaults to 1099. (VMA) Thanks to James Carpenter. Fixes issue CACTUS-85. Added new `encoding` HTTP parameter for the Cactus Servlet TestRunner. By default the XML returned (when there is no server-side XSL transformation) is using the UTF-8 encoding. This `encoding` parameters allows using a user-specified encoding. (VMA) Fixed `request.getRequestURL()` (J2EE 1.3 only) which was not working properly when `WebRequest.setURL()` was called with a null pathinfo parameter. (VMA) Thanks to Scott Leberknight. Fixes issue CACTUS-89. Added support for Resin 3.x in the Ant integration. Only Resin 3.0.5 and above are supported (the reason is that it seems the configuration file format has changed between Resin 3.0.3 and 3.0.5). Note that Servlet API 2.4/JSP 2.0 are not yet supported by Cactus. (VMA) In the Ant integration, added new `contextxml` attributes to the `<tomcat4x>` nested elements of the `<cactus>` task. This is to support the context xml configuration file that appeared with Tomcat 4.1.x. Note that for Tomcat 5.x you need to use the existing nested `<conf>` element (see the `<cactus>` task documentation for more details). (VMA) In the Ant integration, added support for web contexts defined in JBoss's `jboss-web.xml`. (VMA) Thanks to Brian Topping. Fixes issue CACTUS-84. Fixed the bug where a ServletException occurs, stating: `The request object passed to forward() must be the request object you got from your Cactus test case (i.e. a Cactus request wrapper object). Instead we got [...]`. (VMA) In the Ant integration module, added new `configXml` attribute to the `<weblogic7x>` container element of the `<cactus>` task. (VMA) Fixes issue CACTUS-53. Make the `<cactus>` task work on Mac OSX by not including the `tools.jar` file (on Mac OSX all classes are found in `classes.jar`). (VMA) Thanks to Joe Germuska. Prevent requiring `commons-httpclient` jar to be present on the server-side classpath. (VMA) Thanks to Kazuhito Suguri. Added the Maven plugin. It was formerly hosted in the Maven project's own CVS. It is now in the Cactus CVS and is part of the Cactus distribution. (VMA) ## Cactus 1.5 (released on 23 November 2003) In the Cactus/Ant integration, user-defined `tomcat-users` and `web.xml` are now correctly replacing the default version provided by Cactus. This is for the Tomcat 4.x and 5.x containers. (VMA) The Jetty Test Setup was not shutting Jetty down if an error ocurred during setUp. (VMA) Thanks to James Stangler. Fixes issue CACTUS-63. ## Cactus 1.5-rc1 (released on 26 October 2003) The Cactus Ant integration now reports the HTTP error code when it fails to start the container and timeouts. It was previously doing this but only in debug mode. (VMA) Thanks to Norbert Pabis. Fixes issue CACTUS-58. Update the version of Commons HttpClient in the Cactus distribution to 2.0 rc2. (VMA) Fixed and improved logging. It now works with Log4j, JDK 1.4 logging and Commons Simple log. Check the sample servlet application for an example of how to set up Cactus logging. (VMA) Added new optional `cactus.logging.config` Cactus property. If specified Cactus will load the properties file pointed by this property and will set each property as a system property. (VMA) Updated to use AspectJ 1.1.1. When you upgrade to Cactus 1.5-rc1 make sure you update your `aspectjrt.jar` to version 1.1.1 (the jar is provided in the Cactus distribution). (VMA) Added an EJB sample application to demonstrate how to perform EJB unit testing with Cactus and how to automate it with the Cactus/Ant integration. (VMA) When using the new `ServletTestSuite` wrapper around pure JUnit test cases, the `setUp()` and `tearDown()` methods were not called. (VMA) Thanks to Alexander Ananiev. In the Ant integration, when using the <cactus> task with an EAR, the test webapp context was not correctly set. (VMA) Thanks to Jonathan Kovacs. Fixes issue CACTUS-52. Fixed the `JettyTestSetup` class so that it stops the running Jetty server at the end of the test suite execution. (VMA) Thanks to James Stangler. Fixes issue CACTUS-49. The Cactus distribution now packages commons-httpclient 2.0 RC1 (we were previously including version 2.0 beta2). (VMA) Support for WebLogic 7.x is now working fine. Fixed bugs in the WebLogic 7.x configuration: the `weblogic.xml` file was not correctly copied in the `WEB-INF` directory of the cactified war, and an NPE happened when the bea home property was not set. It now tries to guess it from the `cactus.home.weblogic7x` property if not set. In addition, the configuration has also been greatly simplified. (VMA) In the cactifywar Ant task, changed the default realm name that is used when adding Cactus default configuration data. It was previously `Cactus test realm`. It is now `myrealm`. The reas on is that the default WebLogic configuration creates a `myrealm` realm and thus using this name makes our Cactus configuration for WebLogic much simpler. It doesn't affect the other containers as they do not seem to check for the realm name. (VMA) Added the ability to define the JBoss port that will be used in the Ant integration to poll if the JBoss server is up and running. Note: This value will not modify the port of the default JBoss configuration (it is still 8080). However, it is useful for users who have defined their own JBoss configuration and are using a port other than 8080. (VMA) Thanks to Florin Vancea. Fixed bug in Eclipse plugin build where the plugin version was not correctly resolved. (VMA) Thanks to Christopher Marshall. Fixes issue CACTUS-47. ## Cactus 1.5-beta1 (released on 14 July 2003) Support for WebLogic 7.x has not been tested with Cactus 1.5 and may not work. (VMA) Support for WebLogic 6.x is still available in the Ant integration. However, it has not been tested as it is no longer possible to download WebLogic 6.x from the BEA web site. It is thus completely untested. (VMA) Update of jars bundled in the Cactus distribution: Commons Logging 1.0.3, Log4j 1.2.8, HttpClient 2.0beta2, HttpUnit 1.5.3 and JUnit 3.8.1. In addition the requirements for the jars needed to build Cactus were also updated: Checkstyle 3.1 (and the dependent jars: BeanUtils 1.6.1, Collections 2.1, Regexp 1.2 and Antlr 2.7.2). (VMA) Added a Cactus books section for books covering the Cactus framework. (VMA) Refactoring of `XXXTestCase` class hierarchy. Whereas it was previously inheriting from `AbstractWebTestCase` and `AbstractTestCase` it is now simply inheriting from JUnit `TestCase`. Thus all non-public API are now not visible from user (as they should be). This has broken binary compatibility. If you had some framework compiled with Cactus 1.4.1 and using some methods from `AbstractWebTestCase` or `AbstractTestCase`, you'll need to recompile it with Cactus 1.5. (VMA) Added a `HttpServletRequestWrapper.setRemoteUser()` method to simulate a remote user. Thus, there is now 2 methods to get a remote user: by simulating it as above or by using real BASIC or Form-based authentication. (CML) Refactored the authentication support by introducing the interface `Authentication`, which the class `AbstractAuthentication` now implements. (CML) Added a quick tutorial for Cactus developers who want to set up their Eclipse environment to work on the Cactus plugins for Eclipse. (VMA) The `WebResponse` class now has a method to directly retrieve the status code. (CML) When a simulation URL is used and null values are passed for the Server name, Context Path and Servlet Path parameters, calls to Cactus `HttpServletRequestWrapper.getServerName()`, `HttpServletRequestWrapper.getServerPort()`, `HttpServletRequestWrapper.getContextPath()` and `HttpServletRequestWrapper.getServletPath()` now correctly return the values from the original Request object (and not the wrapped one), handled by the Servlet Redirector. (VMA) Added verification code in Cactus to verify that the parameters passed to the `WebRequest.setURL()` method have the correct format and throw an exception if not. (VMA) Added a RSS feed for Cactus news. (VMA) The Cactus web site has a new style that is heavily based on CSS. It should provide better printing capabilities and a more consistent look. (CML) Cactus was not correctly handling the `ComparisonFailure` exception introduced by JUnit 3.8.1 and these exceptions were reported as errors instead of failures. (VMA) Thanks to Misak Boulatian. Fixes issue CACTUS-22. Fixed bug in Cactus exception handling where an invalid test result could result in a `StringIndexOutOfBoundsException`, thus hiding the real problem. (VMA) Thanks to Melissa White. Added a new custom Ant task (WebXmlMerge) that merges the content of two web deployment descriptors into one. That includes the definitions of filters and servlets, as well as some security-related elements. (CML) Allows creating Cactus TestCase without the need for a constructor that takes a String parameter (a default constructor is good enough). Obviously, this feature works only with JUnit 3.8.1 (but Cactus continues to support JUnit 3.7). (VMA) Added ability to add any additional HTTP parameters to the request used by Cactus to the Form-based authentication security URL. (VMA) Added support for running pure JUnit TestCase on the server side using Cactus. This is possible by using a new `ServletTestSuite` Test Suite. (VMA) Fixed bug where a simulation URL would be used even when none has been defined (Reminder: a simulation URL is defined by calling `WebRequest.setURL()`). (VMA) Thanks to Helen Rehn. Added a timeout for the `<runservertests>` Ant task so that the verification that the container is started is stopped if this timeout is reached (a build exception is raised). (VMA) Moved some Ant tasks that were previously in the Cactus Ant tasks; they are now in the Ant Integration project. They are the tasks used to start/stop the containers and the `runservertests` task. It is now recommended to use the Ant Integration. (VMA) Improved (and normalized) build system. This change should not affect nor be visible by Cactus end-users. However, Cactus power users building Cactus from sources will appreciate. (VMA) Improved test classe names in the Servlet Sample application. (VMA) The Servlet Sample build is now using the Cactus Ant Integration. (VMA) New Cactus Ant Integration. It provides new custom Ant tasks such as `<cactifywar>`, `<cactus>` which makes executing Cactus tests from an Ant build script extremely easy. (CML) Modified the build process to generate the Cactus web site by removing the use of Stylebook and replacing it with an XSL stylesheet. In addition, added several new features: support for subdirectories, support for dynamic menu items and sitemap generation. (VMA) The Cactus `runservertests` custom Ant task has been improved and it is now propagating correctly Ant references to the targets you defined for starting the container, stopping it and runnning the Cactus tests. Previously, it was only propagating the Ant properties. (VMA) Added stack trace filtering to the ServletTestRunner. Stack frames in the JUnit framework classes as well as in the Cactus base test case classes are filtered out. (CML) The Cactus web site now provides online documentation for both the CVS HEAD version and the last released version. (VMA) Enable the `ServletTestRunner` to run in an environment where it is not allowed to set system properties. In such cases, the `cactus.properties` configuration file needs to be on the server classpath. (CML) Implemented server-side XSLT transformations in the `ServletTestRunner`. The code is based on the TraX API but uses reflection to avoid a direct runtime dependancy. (CML) Added automated Ant scripts for JBoss/Jetty 3.x. (VMA) Fixed bug where users using a Locale which does not format numbers with dots (".") had issues with the JUnitReport Ant XSL stylesheet. The Servlet Test Runner code now forces a US Locale. (CML) Added new extension class to help unit test JSP Taglibs. See the `TestJspTagLifecycle` test class in the sample-servlet application for help on using it. (VMA) Thanks to Christopher Lenz. Improved error handling when dealing with invalid Cookies. (VMA) Fixed a potential bug with classloaders. On the server side, Cactus looks for the TestCase class by searching first the WebApp Classloader and then the Context ClassLoader. However, the Context ClassLoader is only searched if an Exception (subclass of `Exception`) is raised. Thus, if a `NoClassDefFoundError` had been raised, Cactus would not have searched in the Context ClassLoader. (VMA) Thanks to Roumen B. Antonov. Added support for internationalization (double byte characters) for sending back test results. This allows Cactus to be used with any character set. (VMA) Thanks to Atsushi Hasegawa. Fixed bug where a redirector overriden by calling `WebRequest.setRedirectorName()` was not used to fetch the Cactus test result (the default redirector specified in the Cactus configuration was used instead). (VMA) Thanks to Pranab Dhar. Fixed bug where Cactus was using the deprecated HttpClient `PostMethod.setRequestBody(String)` which had some bug related to char to byte encoding. Now using the `PostMethod.setRequestBody(InputStream)` signature. (VMA) Thanks to Stephan Merker. Added links to Japanese and Korean translations of Cactus. (VMA) Ability to get a real HTTP Session cookie before the start of the test. This is achieved by calling the new `WebRequest.getSessionCookie()` method which returns a `HttpSessionCookie` object that you then add to the HTTP request. Initially suggested by Kyle W. Willkomm. (VMA) New `WebResponse.getCookieIgnoreCase(cookieName)` to get the first cookie matching `cookieName` whatever the case (case-insensitive). (VMA) Added Form-based authentication support. (VMA) Thanks to Jason Robertson. Added a tutorial that explains how to build Cactus from the sources. (VMA) Added a Jetty Sample application to demonstrate how to use the new `JettyTestSetup` that automatically starts Jetty before a test suite. (VMA) Added a Jetty integration tutorial. (JRU) Added a `org.apache.cactus.extension.jetty.JettyTestSetup` JUnit TestSetup to automatically start Jetty before a test suite is executed. This is really nice to quickly run tests inside any IDE or even from a simple `<junit>` Ant taks without the need to package and deploy a WAR. In addition, it is real nice to debug tests this way. Moreover, Jetty starts in less than 1 second, making it completely seamless and transparent! We are now at the same order of magnitude as pure JUnit tests in term of speed ... :-). Of course, this is only for Servlet tests ... I am still waiting for an embeddable EJB container that starts in less than 1 second ... (VMA) Added support for client side `begin(...)` and `end(...)` methods. They are called on the client side, before and after every test in the same way as the JUnit `setUp()` and `tearDown()` are called before and after each test, but on the server side. (VMA) ## Cactus 1.4.1 (released on 31 August 2002) Added a sample (and thus a test for Cactus) for HttpUnit integration as part of the Cactus sample. (VMA) Thanks to Hirsch Richard. Fixed bug in new HttpClient wrapper in Cactus with regards to the headers returned in the HTTP response (they were offset by one and the status line was not returned as a header). (VMA) Thanks to Hirsch Richard. Fixed bug where `NullPointerException` would be thrown by Cactus `ServletTestRunner` if an exception raised in a test case had not specified a message (i.e. `getMessage()` returning `null`). (VMA) Thanks to Micah Williams. Some JDK implementation return "null" when Class.getClassLoader() is called to indicate that the given class has been loaded by the bootstrap class loader. This was leading to `NullPointerException` being thrown by Cactus in some cases. (VMA) Thanks to Gerhard Kreutzer. Fixed import bug in sample-servlet which prevented building Cactus from the sources on JDK 1.4. (VMA) Thanks to Ville Skyttä. Fixed default properties for the sample application so that it points to the correct HttpClient jar which is packaged with Cactus (the one built on 06/06/2002). (VMA) Thanks to Hirsch Richard. Fixed a bug that was preventing having several POST parameters added in the request in `beginXXX()` methods. (VMA) Thanks to Larry Tambascio. The encoding in the sample `junit-noframes` XSL stylesheet was set to be "US-ASCII". It is now set to "UTF-8". Apparently, XSLT processors are only required to support utf-8 and utf-16, the rest is processor specific. For example your processor might support US-ASCII-7 and others might support US-ASCII. Thanks to Robert Koberg for the explanation! (VMA) Thanks to Dave Hoover. ## Cactus 1.4 (released on 25 August 2002) Added a tutorial that explains how to test JSPs with Cactus. (VMA) Fixed JDK 1.2 compatibility (broken in 1.4b1). (VMA) Thanks to David George. According to the XML definitions (at least the definitions Mozilla 1.0 got implemented), the <?xml version...> tag should go before the <?xml-stylesheet...> tag. Using them in the wrong order produces an error when Mozilla tries to render it. (VMA) Thanks to Felipe Hoffa. ## Cactus 1.4b1 (released on July 31 2002) It is now possible to assert response codes in `endXXX()`. For example, you can verify that you servlet has returned a 500 response code. See the tests provided in the Sample Servlet application which is part of the Cactus distribution. This change was possible because we moved the underlying implementation from `HttpURLConnection` to Jakarta Commons HttpClient. Note: It is still not possible to test a 401 response code (this limitation has been raised to the HttpClient team). (VMA) Refactored internal code to be able to use different HTTP connection implementation. 2 are currently provided: one using the JDK `HttpURLConnection` and one using Jakarta Commons HttpClient (the default one). It can be modified by setting the following System property: `cactus.connectionHelper.classname = org.apache.cactus.client.JdkConnectionHelper` (for the JDK `HttpURLConnection`). Note that the Servlet Sample test that assert response code will fail with the JDK `HttpURLConnection` implementation. (VMA) Cactus now requires the Commons Logging library (`commons-logging.jar`). It is needed as Commons HttpClient is now using Commons Logging for logging and Cactus depends on HttpClient. Cactus is also now using Commons HttpClient for all its internal logs. This lets us use any underlying logging implementation: Log4j, LogKit, JDK 1.4 Logging, No Logging or SimpleLog (provided with Commons Logging - logs to the console). Check the Config Howto for how to configure logging in Cactus. (VMA) Removed deprecated `org.apache.cactus.ServletTestRequest` class (was deprecated in Cactus 1.2). (VMA) Removed deprecated `org.apache.cactus.util.ClientCookie` class (was deprecated in Cactus 1.2). (VMA) Removed deprecated `org.apache.cactus.util.AssertUtils` class (was deprecated in Cactus 1.2). (VMA) Added automatic script support for Orion 1.6. (VMA) Ant scripts for Resin, Orion, Tomcat 3.2.4, WebLogic 6.1 and WebLogic 7.0 now correctly configured for Cactus BASIC authentication tests. (VMA) Added automatic script support for WebLogic 7.0. (VMA) It seems that it is possible that the test result contain an end of line character and the Cactus `WebTestResultParser` was choking on this and seeing the returned result as invalid. This has been fixed. (VMA) Thanks to Daniel Dennison. Fixes issue CACTUS-22. Added Test Coverage Reports as part of the Web Site generation. (VMA) Renamed all external jars used in Cactus by suffixing them with their versions. This is so that Cactus users will know exactly what jars Cactus is packaging. You are of course free to use your own jars and Cactus only packages these jars for your convenience. Cactus nows packages Log4j 1.2.3, AspectJ Runtime 1.0.4, JUnit 3.7, HttpClient 2.0alpha1 built on 6/6/2002, HttpUnit 1.4 and (new) the Servlet API 2.2 and 2.3 jars. The Cactus jars have also been renamed to include the version number in their names. (VMA) Cactus Sample can be built using Ant 1.4 (support for Ant 1.4 was broken by a line introduced in Cactus 1.3 that would only work with Ant 1.5. However, this line can easily be commented out). (VMA) Modified the `jspRedirector.jsp` so that it initializes an HTTP Session (`session="true"`). There is no way I know to make this parameter dynamic so we set it to true as this is the most used case. If one of your test must not have a session created for it, then you can always use the Redirector overriding feature (`WebRequest.setRedirectorName(String redirectorName)`). (VMA) Thanks to Marc Brette. Fixes issue CACTUS-21. Fixed bug where the Test Result object which is put in the Servlet Context was not serializable. This might cause some trouble with some containers. (VMA) Thanks to Patrick Lightbody. Added simulation of Remote IP address and Remote Host Name, i.e. you can now control what `request.getRemoteAddr()` and `request.getRemoteHost()` will return. That is useful if your code depends on these values. (VMA) Thanks to Marc Brette. It is now possible to specify the Cactus properties as System properties (the property names are the same as the ones in `cactus.properties`). Also if not specified, redirector names are set by default to "ServletRedirector", "JspRedirector" and "FilterRedirector". (VMA) New Quick start tutorial that explains how to run Cactus tests quickly in Tomcat. (VMA) A cool new way to quickly execute your test cases: Cactus now has a JUnit Test Runner called ServletTestRunner (it is a servlet) that you start using your browser. See the TestRunner Howto tutorial. (VMA) Test classes are now first looked for using the Current classloader (the webapp one for Servlets) and if not found using the context class loader. Previously the order was the revert, which was not logical and could lead to issues. (VMA) Improved debugging of `runservertests` task. Simply run Ant in debug mode (`ant -debug xxx`) and the task will print information. Very useful to know why the `runservertests` task seems to hang after starting your server ... (VMA)