Downloadable Files
The following files are available for download:
Core Distribution
The core distribution consists of the actual Cactus framework for
server-side unit tests, as well as documentation, examples and the
Cactus Ant tasks.
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cactus-<version>-bin.<archive.type>
The main binary distribution of Cactus for J2EE 1.4. or higher. Includes the
Cactus framework, the complete set of documentation, the Cactus Ant
tasks and the examples.
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cactus-src-<version>-src.<archive.type>
The source distribution of Cactus. This corresponds to a clean SVN
checkout of the Cactus sources at the time the version was
released.
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If you need the cactus framework for an older Java version,
you can get it from the maven central repository
Maven provides its own way of installing plugins. The Maven plugin for
Cactus is deployed on Ibiblio
and can be installed in your Maven installation by running:
maven plugin:download -DgroupId=cactus -DartifactId=cactus-maven -Dversion=<version>
For more details see the Maven
Cactus plugin installation page.
<version>
represents the version number for releases
and the date stamp for nightly builds.
Nightly builds
Click
here for Cactus nightly
builds.
You can also check the Build
result page, which contains information on the status of the
Cactus nightly builds (yes, they fail from time to time).