Validation Testing Framework Prerequisites

Running the Validation Testing Framework on a target runtime

As provided in the Device Kit, example launch configurations for running validation tests support Equinox or a standard JRE from the Eclipse SDK workbench. To run a validation test on a target runtime environment the following prerequisites must be met, besides the general Device Kit and Service Activator Toolkit minimum requirements, like a Java 1.4 JVM and an OSGi/Minimum-1.1 Java Runtime Environment.

JUnit 3.8.1 (Java 1.4 or later) or JUnit 4 (Java 5).
A namespace-aware parser for the Simple API For XML Parsing (SAX) 2.0.

When running inside the Eclipse SDK workbench using one of the example launch configurations, the prerequisites are fulfilled by default. Both a JUnit 3.8.1 and a JUnit 4 plug-in are part of the Eclipse base platform, and a SAX 2.0 or later parser is part of the J2SE core APIs.

When running on a target Java Runtime Environment, the following applies:

	Standard Java runtime	OSGi runtime
JUnit	Add junit.jar (Java 1.4 or later) or junit4.jar (Java 5) to the classpath.	Install a bundle that exports the packages in junit.jar or junit4.jar. When running on Equinox, it is also possible to install the org.junit or org.junit4 plug-in folder from the base Eclipse platform.
SAX	If not already part of the core APIs of the Java runtime, add a SAX parser implementation compatible with the JRE to the classpath.	If not already part of the core APIs of the Java runtime, add a SAX parser implementation compatible with the JRE to the classpath, or install a bundle exporting a SAXParserFactory as OSGi service.