Before Starting the Harness

Before you start the harness on a test system, you must have a valid test suite and Java Development Kit 6.0 or higher installed on your test system. See your test suite documentation for information about installing the test suite on your test system. Refer to http://www.oracle.com/products for information about installing the current Java Development Kit on your test system.

You must also understand how your test group uses or intends to use the harness in its test system. For example, consider the following questions:

If your group uses a central location for the test system, you must be able to access the test system at that location.

Installation and Runtime Security Guidelines

It is extremely important to note that the JavaTest installation and runtime system is fundamentally a developer system that is not specifically designed to guard against any malicious attacks from outside intruders. If sample code or tests you author make a network call, you can expose the JavaTest operating environment during execution. For this reason, it is critically important to observe the precautions outlined in the following security guidelines when installing and running JavaTest.

The harness itself is self-contained in javatest.jar. The only external dependency is jh.jar, which should be placed either on the classpath or in the same directory as javatest.jar. If desired, the following optional parts of the binary distribution can be deleted:

To maintain optimum network security, JavaTest can be installed and run in a "closed" network operating environment, meaning JavaTest is not connected directly to the Internet, or to a company Intranet environment that could introduce unwanted exposure to malicious intrusion. This is the ideal secure operating environment when it is possible.

JavaTest does not require an "Intranet" connection that supports network connections to systems outside the JavaTest architecture to intra-company resources, but, for example, some Java ME applications in a test suite might use an HTTP connection. If JavaTest or applications launched from JavaTest are open to any network access you must observe the following precautions to protect valuable resources from malicious intrusion: