Desiderata has released a new upgrade for its Jaxcent software.
Jaxcent is an Internet Explorer API that provides browser automation
and AJAX style programming in Java alone, without any JavaScript.

Version 1.1 of Jaxcent includes additional features that also
make it very convenient to use unit testing harnesses for
testing the actual behavior of applications in a browser,
by simulating user actions and making automated user responses.

Among the new features of Jaxcent is the ability to detect
JavaScript error messages.  This can be used to check
that a web page posts the correct error messages for
various kinds of erroneous entries that can be made
on forms.  Jaxcent can be used to automatically retrieve
the error message text and close the message boxes, so
the automated testing can continue.

Even if the data entered on the web page is correct, the processing
of the data may discover further problems.  For instance,
if a user selects a new username but the username is
already in use, this can only be discovered after
further processing.

Unit testing with Jaxcent can also verify that such (non-Javascript)
errors are being captured and a message is being shown in HTML.

Finally, if the data is correct, the resulting web page
can be checked to verify that the new
data was entered in the system correctly.

With Jaxcent, all this can be done entirely automatically,
from starting an instance of the browser, running tests,
dismissing dialog boxes, checking results, to closing
the instance of the browser.

With this new release, Desiderata believes Jaxcent can be of great
value to programming groups that believe in running frequest automated
tests.

The new release also adds an AjaxFramework class to simplify
Ajax style programming using Jaxcent, and has features
for improved automated browsing.

Jaxcent is available for free evaluation, from
http://www.jaxcent.com/

Samples and Javadoc are also available online
at the web-site.