SimpleHTTPServer in Java

This is an equivalent to the Python SimpleHTTPServer. It will serves the files relative to the current directory.

$ cd ~/myDir
$ java -jar target/SimpleHTTPServer-1.0.0.jar
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
127.0.0.1 [Fri Apr 15 10:18:47 CEST 2011] GET HTTP/1.1 / 200
127.0.0.1 [Fri Apr 15 10:18:47 CEST 2011] GET HTTP/1.1 /favicon.ico 404
...

It is usefull to test static HTML and Javascript interaction. It is a fork from the Vorburger's HTTP Server.

How to integrate with my JUnit Tests

import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium;
import org.junit.*;
import org.simpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPServer;


public class DemoTest {

  private static SimpleHTTPServer server;

  @BeforeClass
  public static void startSeleniumServer() throws Exception {
      server = new SimpleHTTPServer(8000, new File("."));
      server.start();
  }

  @Test
  public void testWhatYouWant() throws Exception {
      ...
  }

  @Test
  public void testWhatYouWant2() throws Exception {
      ...
  }

  @AfterClass
  public static void stopServer() throws Exception {
      server.stop();
  }
}

How to use with maven

Add in your pom :

<dependencies>
...
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.simpleHTTPServer</groupId>
        <artifactId>SimpleHTTPServer</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
...
</dependencies>

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>filirom1-repo</id>
        <url>https://Filirom1@github.com/Filirom1/filirom1-mvn-repo/raw/master/releases</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
        <id>maven-restlet</id>
        <url>http://maven.restlet.org</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>