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Solaris Testing Required?

 
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Hi there,
Do I need to test my project in Solaris before I submit it to Sun? I'm asking this because the OS platform that I am using is Windows 2000 Professional and I don't have any access to a Solaris box or even a Linux box. Do I really need to test this in Solaris before I submit it to Sun to make sure it will work? What will happen if I don't?
 
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Two-and-a-half years ago, I developed my assignment under Win98. Before submitting, I tested under Windows NT and found that I had some rather horrible repaint issues that made the application unusable. These were due both to subtle differences between the behaviour of the JVM on different platforms, and to bugs in the Swing toolkit at the time.
So the answer is: according to the WORA (Write Once Run Anywhere) philosophy, you should be fine. However, practice can be more like WODE (Write Once Debug Everywhere). You're best off testing on as many platforms as you can, since you don't know what OS the assessor is going to use. But if you can't, you can't, and have to take the (small) risk.
- Peter
 
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I would just test under all the platforms to which you have easy access, and document this fact in your README.txt under where you list your primary development platform. I have seen people mention that the assesors try to use a setup similar to your development environment to run your assignment, but I have no idea if this is true. Another idea would be to post a hyperlink to your client.jar file and see if any of the folks here with access to different platforms would run a brief sanity check and makesure everything seems OK. However, I'm not sure that Sun would consider that acceptable, so be careful.
 
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