How do I use JMockit with Gradle on the IBM J9 JVM?

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I'm using Gradle (Milestone 8a) to run JUnit tests on my project with the IBM J9 JVM, which according to "Running tests with JMockit" requires that I pass the argument `-javaagent:jmockit.jar` to the JVM. However, JMockit isn't injecting mocked parameters which is causing my tests to fail with "Method (foo) should have no parameters)". The tests run fine in Eclipse on the HotSpot JVM. I've extended the `test` task to find the JAR and add the argument to `jvmArgs` like this: ``` test { doFirst { // Don't do this until the task is actually being executed, because // as soon as we call testCompile.find the configuration is resolved and // can't be modified anymore. jMockit = project.configurations.testCompile.find { it.name.startsWith("jmockit-") } jvmArgs "-javaagent:${jMockit}" } } ``` I've also added JMockit and JUnit to the `testCompile` configuration, making sure that JMockit is first, and verified this by running `gradle dependencies`: ``` dependencies { testCompile 'com.googlecode…

Accepted Answer

This is http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2189, which is already fixed for the upcoming 1.0-rc-1. You can try out the release candidate today.

How do I use JMockit with Gradle on the IBM J9 JVM?

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