Jakarta Cactus

Jakarta Cactus

Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Stable release	1.8.1
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Development status	Active
Type	Unit Test
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/

Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side Java code (Servlets, EJBs, Tag libs, ...) from the Jakarta Project. The intent of Cactus is to lower the cost of writing tests for server-side code. It uses JUnit and extends it. Cactus implements an in-container strategy, meaning that tests are executed inside the container.

Project Status

The Jakarta Cactus project announced the new 1.8.1 version [1] on January 18, 2009. Version 1.8.1 still does not support JUnit 4.x, although a workaround of sorts is documented [2]. As of 1.8, Cactus uses Cargo for all server-related manipulation.

External links

• Official Page of Jakarta Cactus
• Official Page of the Codehaus Cargo Project