Currently, to be able to run the the J2EE connector unit tests, we have to manually start the application server, along with a driver and at least a node.

I propose to automate the entire process, which includes:

• download the aplication server. Here I propose we download Geronimo, as it is the only one we support that is under the terms if the Apache 2.0 license
• install the application server (should be as easy as unzipping a single file)
• start the application server
• deploy the JCA connector
• deploy the unit tests web application
• run the tests via an http request from a java client
• finally, undeploy the j2ee modules, stop the app server and cleanup
• this must work at least on Linux and Windows systems, as part of a CI (Jenkins) build process