Re: tests with rmic!

[Nicolas Geoffray <nicolas dot geoffray at menlina dot com>]

Hi Meskauskas,

Meskauskas Audrius wrote:

> Hi, Nicolas,
>
> Nice idea, great to have at least any java.rmi rests! The current 
> testing situation with this package is deeply tragical, the coverage 
> being plain zero. And it is possible to find random talks on the web 
> like "how reliable they (GNU Classpath) RMI implementation is? Does it 
> work?".
>
> Any tests are very welcome.
>
> I think it would be a good idea to write Mauve tests as the 
> independent modules that run on a single virtual machine and does call 
> external tools. The most of the current tests  are written this way. 
> Here are several suggestions how to make an ordinary Mauve test that 
> would not need to cross the boundaries of the current virtual machine 
> to run:
>
> 1. Instead of starting three independent virtual machines (one for 
> server, one for client and one for the naming service), you can just 
> start three threads. When all cleanup problems, if any, will be 
> restricted to the current run of the test suite.

I can't use threads in a same virtual machine, because there is no 
serialization of objects in RMI when the server and the client lives in 
the same virtual machine (maybe it's possible enabling a flag somewhere, 
but i don't know the API)

> 2. Instead of invoking rmic from inside the Mauve test, run it once 
> with the -keep key and just add the generated source code file to your 
> path. Such test would be easier to debug.

Allright. Good idea

Bye,
Nicolas