Introduction

The idea for this commander came from testing several JMS implementations in combination with several Application Servers, which connected to a backend. These test sets where run through Ant and JUnit. Before starting a test the Messaging Server and Application Server needed to be deployed and configured. To make it possible to test many differend combinations we used VmWare server, for setting up virtual computers. Each guest (virtual computer) would contain a JMS implementation, Application Server or backend. As of this we needed to check if the required virtual computers (guests) for a test where up and running and when not they needed to be started.