News and Events

2005-01-28 Cactus 1.7 has been released. Full details can be found in the release announcement.
2005-01-07 Christian Sell has started a new framework called AppServerUnit. Its principle seems very similar to Cactus in that it also uses a server interception approach in order to run JUnit test cases on the server side. It focuses only on EJB and has some client side tools to create test-instrumented EARs.
2004-12-10 Olexiy Prohorenko has published a nice tutorial article explaining how to use Cactus to test EJBs.
2004-08-26 The Cargo project has just started. The goal is to extract the code to start/stop/configure containers from the Cactus Ant integration and make it a standalone project.
2004-08-26 Julien explains how to test struts application with Cactus.
2004-05-21 JAM is a modular Ant toolkit for developing and testing Java/J2EE applications. JAM supports EJB and Servlet/JSP development using XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus, Maven, Castor and MDA/UML code generation on various J2EE servers including JBoss. There is a tutorial showing how to test EJBs with Cactus. For more information see also the release information.
2004-05-08 Cactus 1.6.1 has been released. Full details can be found in the release announcement.
2004-05-08 Cactus 1.6 has been released. Full details can be found in the release announcement.
2004-02-13 Vincent is proposing a new architecture for Cactus v2. We have set up a wiki page to discuss it. There is some start at implementing it in Cactus CVS in the scratchpad area.
2004-02-13 There is now a new Cactus wiki. This new wiki is based on MoinMoin. All changes go to the cactus-dev mailing list.
2003-12-13 MockEJB 0.5 now integrates with Cactus.
2003-11-23 Cactus 1.5 has been released. Full details can be found in the release announcement.
2003-11-13 Jean-François El Fouly has translated the Cactus web site in French. It is a first version and not everything is translated yet but it's a very good start. Thanks Jean-Francois!
2003-10-30 The Cactus plugin for Maven, which was previously hosted in Maven CVS itself, has now moved to the Cactus CVS. It will no longer be bundled in the next Maven release. This is part of an effort to decouple Maven plugins from Maven core. There is a new mechanism to easily install external plugins. (see maven plugin:download).
2003-10-26 Cactus 1.5-rc1 has been released.
2003-08-05 Tobias has a nice blog entry about performing fileuploads with Cactus, Java NIO and Commons-httpclient.
2003-07-14 Cactus 1.5-beta1 has been released.
2003-07-12 A new article about using Cactus to unit test webapps has been posted on JavaPro.
2003-07-11 JUnit in Action is available through Manning Early Access Programme (MEAP). By subscribing, you get the chapters as they are made available (in PDF). There are currently 3 chapters available and a new one is posted every week.
2003-07-04 The slides from Vincent's presentation at the TheServerSide Symposium about "Unit testing J2EE applications" are available here.
2003-05-29 "JUnit in Action", from Vincent Massol (with Ted Husted) is available for pre-order on Amazon .
2003-05-15 Cactus news are now available as RSS feeds! Point your RSS feed reader to here.
2003-05-15 Vincent Massol and Ted Husted are writing "JUnit in Action", a book on unit testing java applications. Amongst other things, it covers extensively Cactus 1.5 (about 7 chapters covering Cactus). The book will soon be available in bookstores.
2003-05-08 StrutsTestCase v2.0 has been released. It improves support for Struts 1.1 (including better support for testing Tiles and sub-applications), provides several requested enhancements, and fixes many reported defects.
2003-05-04 Transition to a new web site stylesheet that more heavily relies on CSS. Apart from easier maintenance, it should provide a more consistent look as well as far superior printability. Naturally, the new site will look a bit odd on old browsers like Netscape 4.x, but still should be quite usable.
2003-04-08 Release 2.0 of the Cactus plugin for Maven is out. It is now a pure wrapper around the new Cactus/Ant Integration.
2003-02-10 Vincent Massol will be a speaker at the TheServerSide Symposium where he will present Unit Testing J2EE Applications, which talks about Cactus, Mock Objects and AspectJ (AOP).
2003-01-05 StrutsTestCase v1.9.5 has been released. It improves support for Struts 1.1b3 (including support for testing Tiles and sub-applications), provides several requested enhancements, and fixes many reported defects.