2011/08/05 - Jakarta Cactus has been retired.

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News and Events

2008-03-28 Cactus has a new cool web-site. You can write your comments to the Cactus mailing list.
2005-07-12 Cactus 1.7.1 has been released. Full details can be found in the release announcement.
2005-04-14 Cactus now has a nice banner that you can use on your web site if you wish to show your support to the Cactus project. Thanks Eoghan for the design.
2005-04-13 Our previous logo was nice and we thank Lyonel Thouvenot for designing it. However change is good and Eoghan McIlwaine has designed a new logo for us! Thanks Eoghan.
2005-01-28 Cactus 1.7 has been released. Full details can be found in the release announcement.
2005-01-07 Christian Sell has started a new framework called AppServerUnit. Its principle seems very similar to Cactus in that it also uses a server interception approach in order to run JUnit test cases on the server side. It focuses only on EJB and has some client side tools to create test-instrumented EARs.
2004-12-10 Olexiy Prohorenko has published a nice tutorial article explaining how to use Cactus to test EJBs.
2004-11-23 Piran Montford has created a Cactus extension to help use Cactus with ATG Dynamo.
2004-08-26 The Cargo project has just started. The goal is to extract the code to start/stop/configure containers from the Cactus Ant integration and make it a standalone project.
2004-08-26 Julien explains how to test struts application with Cactus.
2004-05-21 JAM is a modular Ant toolkit for developing and testing Java/J2EE applications. JAM supports EJB and Servlet/JSP development using XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus, Maven, Castor and MDA/UML code generation on various J2EE servers including JBoss. There is a tutorial showing how to test EJBs with Cactus. For more information see also the release information.
2004-05-08 Cactus 1.6.1 has been released. Full details can be found in the release announcement.
2004-05-08 Cactus 1.6 has been released. Full details can be found in the release announcement.
2004-02-13 Vincent is proposing a new architecture for Cactus v2. We have set up a wiki page to discuss it. There is some start at implementing it in Cactus CVS in the scratchpad area.
2004-02-13 There is now a new Cactus wiki. This new wiki is based on MoinMoin. All changes go to the cactus-dev mailing list.