[buckminster-dev] Running JUnit Plugins tests in headless mode

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

I have a series of JUnit plugin tests for a plugin project that resides in my workspace. I 
can create a JUnit launch configuration for each test and launch it if I'm using the IDE. 
The result is that Eclipse creates a temporary target environment that includes my plugin 
and temporary workspace where it executes the test. This is really nice. Now, I would like 
to do the exact same thing in headless mode.

I already have a functional headless runnable (it includes the headless parts of PDE and JDT 
among other things) and my first attempt was to create a launch configuration using the IDE 
and then launch that from my headless runnable. That didn't work since the launch 
configuration requires the org.eclipse.pde.ui.JunitLaunchConfig in order to run (and that in 
turn brings in a whole bunch of ui components). Further more, the configuration as such is 
store in meta-data which makes it less then trivial to store it together with the associated 
project (in CVS or other repository).

So question is. How do I make this happen? My objective is to run the plugin junit tests, 
directly from the workspace, during unattended nightly builds. I'm thinking of perhaps 
creating an ant-task that would simulate a launch configuration but I'm lacking 
documentation. Ideas, advice, or pointers to relevant code or docs are very welcome.

Kind regards,
Thomas Hallgren