Minerva & Selenium

[Andrew Zeneski-2]

I have just opened up a new repository off the apache network for  
development of a few extensions for OFBiz. The components I am  
listing below are all freely available and open source, but probably  
under multiple licenses (including LGPL, and X).

1. Minerva - The connection pool we use in OFBiz. This is old code in  
which we were not able to obtain permission from the authors to sign  
over to Apache. The binary libs are perfectly okay (as far as I know)  
so the jar file is included in the ofbiz repository. Here is the  
source code, for those who are interested, we (Hotwax) will continue  
to maintain this code for as long as we are including it in OFBiz. As  
always, contributes are welcome!

2. Selenium - The original patch provided by Andrew Sykes (JIRA  
OFBIZ-680) spawned this new component. Due to the fact that Selenium  
uses LGPL libraries we cannot include this in the distribution. So, I  
made it very easy to use. Checkout this extension and drop it in your  
hot-deploy directory, a new tab will appear to run selenium tests.  
You can create new tests for your components by creating a selenium  
directory within your component (see selenium/selenium for examples).

Each sub-directory under this is the name of a test suite, the tests  
live inside the sub-directory. Using the selenium component as an  
example:

selenium/selenium/sample - The test suite 'sample'
Inside here are the two sample tests.

When you visit the page: /selenium, you will get a list of all test  
suites sorted by component. There is no configuration needed once  
your tests are placed in the properly named locations. You can then  
run the tests right inside an OFBiz window.

Let me know if you have any questions. As new extensions are created  
we will add them here, if you have something you wish to contribute  
but cannot be added to the trunk due to license restrictions let us  
know, we may be able to include that in this repository.

As of right none, none of these extensions will follow any release  
pattern; nor will they probably ever be officially released. In order  
to use them, you will need to pull them down from SVN.

Note: the ofbiz-minerva.jar (in entity/lib) is kept in sync with the  
code from this tree. After changes are tested, the jar is then  
checked into the Apache trunk; you do not need to check this out to  
use the pool, it is used by default already.

SVN:
https://svn.hotwaxmedia.com/svn/ofbizext/minerva
https://svn.hotwaxmedia.com/svn/ofbizext/selenium

Fisheye
https://svn.hotwaxmedia.com/fisheye/browse/ofbizext


Andrew