Hello, Glassfish enthusiasts
This is S. Ali Tokmen from the Codehaus CARGO team. I'm sending this
short e-mail to tell you about the immediate availability of CARGO 1.0.4.
First question, what is CARGO? CARGO is an open source application that
can start, stop, configure and deploy applications as well as
configuration files on many, many Java server containers. CARGO is
available as a simple Java library, a set of ANT tasks as well as a
Maven2 plugin.
Of course, Glassfish is part of the servers supported by CARGO... In
detail, CARGO supports both Glassfish 2.x and 3.x.
Second question, what would you need CARGO for? Well, typical use cases
for CARGO are:
* *Functional and integration testing on a real server environment*:
indeed, CARGO can be used to download, configure, start and stop
Glassfish and also to deploy all your datasources and applications
to it; so you can do real-world tests.
o JUnit lovers: See our short article showing you how to
configure, start and stop one of the many application
servers supported by CARGO with your application in order to
run your real-world tests on
http://cargo.codehaus.org/Functional+testing
o Maven2 users: Try out the CARGO archetypes that show you how
to integrate server-based testing in your Maven2 builds:
http://cargo.codehaus.org/Maven2+Archetypes
* *Multi-server testing*: since CARGO uses the exact same API
whether you use Glassfish or any other server, you can reuse the
exact same configuration to test your application on different
servers.
o The list of supported servers and features supported on each
server can be found on
http://cargo.codehaus.org/Containers
* *Automated deployment*: CARGO supports remote deployment on many
servers. You therefore can use CARGO to automatically deploy your
applications (and their prerequisites) on your favorite servers.
* ... and more
For more information, please visit
http://cargo.codehaus.org/
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