[JBoss-dev] Re: Fixing the testsuite for JRockit

I started looking into some Jrockit failures and I realized that the execution order of Junit tests inside a class *MAY BE THE REVERSE* when running with Jrockit, compared to using sun's JVM. This boils down to Class.getMethods()/getDeclaredMethods() returnings methods in an undefined order: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#getMethods( ) Other people have stumbled on this before and the verdict seems to be that tests should be re-written to work in any order: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=142528 http://mail-archive.objectweb.org/howl/2005-11/msg00058.html I'm certain there are places in our testsuite that really depend on the execution order, in fact this could explain the majority of jrockit failures, so unless we isolate and conditionally execute those tests, we need to fix them!