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ant and junit

WWW has a lot tutors on using junit with Ant, such as Tutorial: Hello World with Ant. But if you following it, you'd find ant complains about something. Here are some points I find:

1. You must install ant full if you want using embed junit. You need to run following command in the directory you just unpack ant binary ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system. It'll install all the dependency java libraries for ant tasks.Please see http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html
2. Ant will automatic to include junit-x.x.x.jar in classref, but you must write a target to explicitly compile test sources to test classes.

ant and assert

For enabling assert in runtime, java must be invoke with option -ea. And for ant, build.xml must add <assertions> in <java> and <junit>. For example:

            <assertions>
                <enable />
            </assertions>

ant and proxy

For java version 1.5+, please using following command to complet ant install process: ant -autoproxy -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system. More info can be getten from here

EasyMock for junit\

Mock object is needed for unit test. For java, there are tons mock lib. After a rough study, I choose EasyMock due to it is similar to the mock lib I used in Ruby. There is no good official document for EasyMock, but I found a great blog which can be seen as document of EasyMock: http://jeantessier.com/SoftwareEngineering/Mocking.html

In Java World, HTML Parsers play a role that change dirty, untidy html pages in real word into a well-formatted HTML files.

Pure-Java Solution

Here is a summary page: Open Source HTML Parsers in Java

Using Firefox-DLL

Besides all these, there is a method to using firefox-dll to parse html. This method can get best result.

But this method is very hard to deploy and easy to broken.

Benchmark

Here is a benchmark result, which shows that CyberNeko is winner.

Javascript and CSS2 support

However, if you want to support javascript and css2, Cobra could be a good answer. Please check following blog Using the Lobo Cobra Toolkit to Retrieve the HTML of Rendered Pages

java -jar file_name_of_jar