I just downloaded the new FitNesse release 20090709. From this version on FitNesse is released just as a single jar with ~5MB size. In previous versions FitNesse was delivered as zipped distribution. I wondered where the Zip distribution can be downloaded from and read the release notes for version 20090709. There was an interesting entry there:
“Self Install/Update. From now on FitNesse will be released as a jar file. When you first run a new version with java -jar fitnesse.jar it will install itself (or update itself) into the directory in which it is running. No more zip files. No more missing jar files. No more moving pages into new installations. FitNesse takes care of it’s own environment for you.”
So I just downloaded the jar file and launched it:
java -jar fitnesse.jar Unpacking new version of FitNesse resources. Please be patient. ................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................ ................................................................................ You must now reload FitNesse. Thank you for your patience........
After this was finished FitNesse created the well known directory structure.
Also the start scripts (run.sh/bat) have gone. The jar is executable, so I started it:
java -jar fitnesse.jar -p 8080 FitNesse (v20090709) Started... port: 8080 root page: fitnesse.wiki.FileSystemPage at ./FitNesseRoot logger: none authenticator: fitnesse.authentication.PromiscuousAuthenticator html page factory: fitnesse.html.HtmlPageFactory page version expiration set to 14 days.
Soon I will update fit4oaw to use this version.
use jre 1.6 or later versions to run fitnesse.jar…
http://fitnesse.org the official site for fitnesse says u can use jre1.5 or later versions.. jre1.5 will not work
Comment by Santosh — March 19, 2010 @ 1:42 PM
It would be nice to know the latest version with which jre 1.5 *will* work…
Comment by Fingal — February 28, 2011 @ 2:37 AM