Hello, JBoss enthusiasts

This is Ali from the Codehaus CARGO team. I'm sending this short article to tell you about the immediate availability of CARGO 1.0.4.

First question, what is CARGO? CARGO is an open source application  that can start, stop, configure and deploy applications as well as  configuration files on many, many Java server containers. CARGO is  available as a simple Java library, a set of ANT tasks as well as a  Maven2 plugin.

Of course, JBoss is part of the servers  supported by CARGO... In detail, supported versions include JBoss 3.x, 4.x, 4.2.x, 5.x, 5.1.x and the 6.0.0 milestones.

Second question, what would you need CARGO for? Well, typical use cases for CARGO are:

• Functional and integration testing on a real server environment:  indeed, CARGO can be used to download, configure, start and stop JBoss and also to deploy all your datasources and  applications to it; so you can do real-world tests.
  • JUnit lovers: See our short article showing you how to configure,  start and stop one of the many application servers supported by CARGO  with your application in order to run your real-world tests on http://cargo.codehaus.org/Functional+testing
  • Maven2 users: Try out the CARGO archetypes that show you how to integrate server-based testing in your Maven2 builds: http://cargo.codehaus.org/Maven2+Archetypes
• Multi-server testing: since CARGO uses the exact same API  whether you use JBoss or any other server, you can  reuse the exact same configuration to test your application on different  servers.      
  • The list of supported servers and features supported on each server can be found on http://cargo.codehaus.org/Containers
• Automated deployment: CARGO supports remote deployment on  many servers. You therefore can use CARGO to automatically deploy your  applications (and their prerequisites) on your favorite servers.
• ... and more

For more information, please visit http://cargo.codehaus.org/