Creating jar files as part of a test?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 03/31/2014 10:34 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> The test has to use @library because it is using processtools to 
> launch another VM to run the "real" test via the jar file I am 
> creating (and the fact it is a jar file is a critical part of the 
> thing under test).
>
> So I guess I'm going to have to run the jar tool passing the value of 
> test.classes as the path to the actual classes I want in the jar, and 
> list the actual classes individually.
>
> Thanks,
> David 


test.classes points to a directory which only contains the classes for 
the files in the main test source directory.

test.class.path is a path which contains a series of directories or jars 
for all the classes for the test.  The includes the same directory as 
for test.classes as well as directories for the library classes.


I understand that you are using processtools to launch the real test via 
the jar file.   But is it the case that you don't need any library 
classes in the .jar file? In that case, you may be able to get away with 
just jarring up the test.classes directory.

-- Jon