Launch Java Web Start GUI application for testing

[ldrjuno]

Does somebody know, whether it is possible to launch an application via Java Web Start and use it for recording and testing? We need to be able to launch it this way in order to communicate with server (Glassfish v3.1; using jdk 1.6.0_25).

Or another way would be to launch it via .bat script. Is it possible?

Thanks
George

[gnebling]

WindowTester tests are built on top of JUnit so there may very well be a way to run your tests via webstart if there is a way to run JUnit tests via webstart and a way to add the windowtester libraries to the webstart classpath. That said, we haven't looked into webstart so we're not sure of it's limitations. In the end, the question to ask is whether you can trigger any JUnit plugin tests via webstart. If the answer is yes, then it should be possible to run WindowTester tests.

[ldrjuno]

Hello

Thank you for your answer.

We managed to pass all the JavaVM parameters, which are needed for glassfish (there is quite a few of those) to the test Record configuration, but the test had not launch anyway. It seemed to be a classloader problem, where glassfish passes its classloader as VM argument and WindowTester is probably overriding it.

Thanks anyway