Hi, 

 

I am a  big friend of developing  java agents or java Script-libraries with Eclipse. Following sound  design principles as low coupling,  high cohesion, the code which actually accesses the Java Api  for  Domino is well encapsulated  in a few  classes  or methods. All the rest is junit-Testable. The part uses the Java Api  for Domino is  not. For testing my usage  of  the Java Domino API, I have  to  access  a  real  Notes instance. Mock classes would provide  a implementation  of the  API, which does not need a Notes  instance.  

A mock framework at  least for the most  important Notes Domino  Java classes would make it possible  to write proper unit tests  and fasten the development process. Developers  would  not even have  to start Domino to use those  mock  objects.  I've started  to write one for myself and it appears to  work quite well  for the classes Database, View, ViewColumn, Document,  Item, DocumentCollection. Those are covering 98% of  the use  cases when I do  write something for Domino in Java as  for this code the point is the  opportunities Java  overs  and  not fancy code in Domino (I  do  that in formula  language, Lotus Script).
If I put  my  mock implementation open source, I drop a comment here.