Thread: Junit3 error: Implicit super constructor TestCase() is not visible

The following code has this error compiled in Eclipse:
Implicit super constructor TestCase() is not visible. Must explicitly invoke another constructor

package com.my.prog; 
 
import junit.framework.*; 
import javax.naming.*; 
import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject; 
 
 
public abstract class TestProIndexBean extends TestCase { 
 
    static { 
       System.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory"); 
       System.setProperty(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "iiop://localhost:7001" ); 
    } 
 
    private ProIndex proIndex = null; 
    private ProIndexHome home = null;   
 
    protected void setUp() throws Exception { 
 
        super.setUp(); 
        if( home == null ) { 
            Context context = new InitialContext(); 
            home = (ProIndexHome)PortableRemoteObject.narrow( 
                context.lookup("com.my.prog.business.ProIndexHome"), 
                ProIndexHome.class); 
        } 
        proIndex = home.create(); 
    } 
 
    protected void tearDown() throws Exception { 
        proIndex.remove(); 
        super.tearDown(); 
    } 
 
    public void testProIndexRequest1() throws Exception { 
 
        System.out.println("testProIndexRequest1()"); 
        ProIndexRequest request = new ProIndexRequest(); 
        ProIndexResponse actualReturn = proIndex.getProIndexInfo(request); 
        this.assertEquals("0000", actualReturn.getCd()); 
 
    } 
}

I think it means you have to have a default constructor for TestCase and you don't.

public TestCase()
{
 
}

Originally Posted by javapenguin

I think it means you have to have a default constructor for TestCase and you don't.

No, it does not. And once again, if you have to preface a post with "I think", I suggest you be sure before posting...would have taken 30seconds to write something to test if you receive a compile time error....no-arg constructors are called implicitly.

goldest is along the right lines....but I'm a bit confused because the API for JUnit states the no-arg constructor for TestCase is public...and I receive no error when I try and reproduce a TestCase with no constructor. That being said the no-arg constructor in the API states

This method is not intended to be used by mere mortals without calling setName().

I suggest you create a no-arg constructor and call the parent constructor that sets the name and see what that does.