Question

How would you run the Selenium process (thread) from a Java process so I don’t have to start Selenium by hand?

Answer 1

The server:

import org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer; public class SeleniumServerControl {   private static final SeleniumServerControl instance = new SeleniumServerControl();   public static SeleniumServerControl getInstance() {     return instance;   }   private SeleniumServer server = null;   protected SeleniumServerControl() {   }   public void startSeleniumServer() {     if (server == null) {       try {         server = new SeleniumServer(SeleniumServer.DEFAULT_PORT);         System.out.println(' selenium server ' + server.toString());       } catch (Exception e) {         System.err.println('Could not create Selenium Server because of: '             + e.getMessage());         e.printStackTrace();       }     }     try {       server.start();     } catch (Exception e) {       System.err.println('Could not start Selenium Server because of: '           + e.getMessage());       e.printStackTrace();     }   }   public void stopSeleniumServer() {     if (server != null) {       try {         server.stop();         server = null;       } catch (Exception e) {         System.err.println('Could not stop Selenium Server because of: '             + e.getMessage());         e.printStackTrace();       }     }   } } 

The client:

browser = new DefaultSelenium('localhost', 4444, '*firefox', 'http://www.google.com'); browser.start();