Welcome Preetam to join GlassFish Quality Community. Thanks for trying
out our test framework and asking
many good questions. We have processed your SCA and you are looking
forward to work with you together
to improve GlassFish quality.
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Thanks,
Judy
Preetam Deshpande wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am Preetam Deshpande <http://www.linkedin.com/in/preetamd>, an
> Enterprise Access Management professional with expertise in Oracle
> suite of products.
> I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from
> Visvesvaraya University, Karnataka, India (http://vtu.ac.in).
> My interest in understanding the enterprise middleware softwares like
> application and portal servers lead me to explore about Glassfish.
> Thanks to Gopal Jorapur for introducing me to this group and giving
> much needed assistance to bootstrap.
>
> Further I installed the GlassFish V2 and tried to create a sample test
> program of "hellouniverse"
> as per the instructions given at
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/quality/portal/HowToAddTestsV2.html.
>
> I could get through it with no issues. The availability of detailed
> documentation was very helpful.
> With this successful 1st step I wish to explore more about
> contributing to this group. Kindly help me with details on how to proceed.
>
> Further I have following questions/doubts from this 1st assignment:
>
> 1. About build.properties
>
> There exists a 'war.file' property. Are there similar parameters for
> ear and jar type of archives?
> Or this parameter is only referred for file name and the extension of
> the file is decided by 'archive.type' parameter?
> However I believe irrespective of my archive type build.xml will
> create a .war file.
>
> Am I missing some thing here?
>
>
> 2. About build.properties
>
> What is the purpose of 'deploy.url' and when should this be
> configured? Is it required when application needs to be deployed on a
> remote gf(glassfish)?
>
> 3. While modifything various files for adding a new test. I observed
> that I had to use strings like
> 'hello-universe','hellouniverse','helloUniverse'.
> This part was little confusing to me. I could not figure out how to
> decide on which value to use at a given entry. Could some one throw
> more light on
> this naming convention.
>
> 4. I noticed this issue with documentation.
> In section where editing web.xml is described: some of the changes are
> not in bold like changing the name to 'hellouniversetest1'.
> The good point about this issue is it forces you to understand the
> changes you are making to the test.
>
> --
> Thanks
> Preetam