The project started simply as a library with some (little) common functionality used throughout most projects. Later on it became clear that there isn’t really a way to use an apache-commons library without causing the dependency on commons-logging, etc. Using Kit/J in application servers or legacy projects required often concurrently managing different versions of Apache libraries. So, in time, one of the main goals of Kit/J became to be independent of Apache libraries. Then we will have one library with all functionality included, requiring no external dependencies.

Actually, there are many unit tests available for the project, and a sizeable Ant script is used to build the whole thing. These aren’t however part of the open-source package.

Tags: unit tests, build scripts