Support JUnit annotations

[ewolff]

I like the approach https://github.com/vert-x/vertx-junit-annotations takes. IMHO the annotations provide a clean and nice way to define tests. However, that projects seems to be discontinued - the last released version was for 1.3.0. So I wonder whether these annotations could be ported over to this projects. It would be a great addition IMHO.

[purplefox]

The Junit annotations was based around the old test framework which was a much more complex way to run tests - it required the user to retain both a Java JUnit proxy class and the actual test class separately, and the mechanism for signalling test start, test completion etc was far more complex.

This has been superseded by testtools which means you can write in container tests as standard Junit tests and they are automatically run in the container. You can also use the standard JUnit api in tests (again not possible with the old framework)

[ewolff]

Thanks for the fast feedback! I am talking about annotations such as @TestVerticle or @testmodule that appear quite helpful to me.

[purplefox]

This annotations are unnecessary with testtools as the Junit test IS the test verticle - take a look at the Gradle teample project for examples