test with a 3rd party jar file?

[huizhe wang]

Thanks Sean and Rob.

Yes, I was told before to avoid shell scripts in tests. I'll wait till 
after your investigation to see what's the best to do in this case.

-Joe

On 6/24/2013 3:42 PM, Rob McKenna wrote:
> Some interesting conversations were had lately about shell scripts 
> during Joe Darcy's recent infrastructure tech talk. In particular 
> around the idea of a "jdk.testing" package to provide libraries that 
> would help with the types of operations seen in shell scripts. I'm 
> really hoping to spend some time on this myself over the coming weeks. 
> (in an effort to at least understand why we need shell scripts and 
> whether we could do something else instead)
>
> In any case it should be possible to simply replace the script with a 
> java program that does the same thing. That would require fiddling 
> with Process however, and its debatable as to whether that would 
> result in fewer test failures. (shell scripts counting for a 
> proportionally large number of those failures) JSR199 might help to 
> reduce the amount of ProcessBuilders required in this instance.
>
>     -Rob
>
> On 24/06/13 20:50, Seán Coffey wrote:
>> You should be able to do it with scripts. Mandy designed something 
>> similar recently :
>>
>> http://opengrok.ie.oracle.com:8080/opengrok/xref/jdk7u-cpu/jdk/test/closed/java/util/logging/SystemLoggerTest.sh 
>>
>>
>> In the recent infrastructure meeting, scripts for tests were frowned 
>> upon. I don't see any alternative unless jtreg is able to handle this 
>> relatively simple (common?) setup request.
>>
>> regards,
>> Sean.
>>
>>
>> On 24/06/13 18:33, huizhe wang wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if it's possible to automate a test with a 3rd 
>>> party jar file on the bootclasspath or java.endorsed.dirs?
>>>
>>> I have a test that I run manually with Apache Xerces jar.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:     [JBS] (JDK-8016773) Regression: diff. behavior with 
>>> user-defined SAXParser
>>> Date:     Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:04:02 +0000 (UTC)
>>> From:     Pavel Stepanov (JBS) <jbs at jbs.oracle.com>
>>> To:     huizhe.wang at oracle.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pavel Stepanov 
>>> <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=pastepan> 
>>> commented on Backport JDK-8016773 
>>> <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8016773>
>>> *Regression: diff. behavior with user-defined SAXParser* 
>>> <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8016773>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> so, does this mean it is impossible to write regresion test?
>>>
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