[FEATURE] Support easily running java unit tests inside a container

It would be great if there was a way to easily run Java code inside a Docker container. A use case for this is to run a unit test that relies on a particular environment that is provided by a container e.g. running a unit test of some Java code that uses Tesseract installed inside a container. The java unit test can run outside the container, but since it requires a particular version and installation setup of Tesseract running natively, it would be best if the unit test was actually run inside the container, and any assertions and such are reported back to the initiating test.

I think one way to accomplish this goal is probably via remote code execution i.e. a java program is started inside a user-specified container [1] by the test. The test then sends the executable code to the java program running inside the container [2], which executes it, and then sends the result (exception or test completion) back to the test. The test then rethrows the assertion, or passes.

[1] This container would obviously need to have java so that it can run the remoting program.

[2] How? Open question, but the user would probably have to define which dependencies they want to copy into the container (via a DSL) and perhaps implement an interface that triggers the actual in-container test, the compiled version of which is also copied into the container.

Inizia definendo l’ambito del flusso proposto di esecuzione remota del codice tra un test unitario Java e un container Docker specificato dall’utente, incluso il trasferimento delle dipendenze e dei test compilati. Il completamento consiste nell’avere un modo manutenibile per eseguire le asserzioni nel container e riportare i fallimenti al test che ha avviato l’esecuzione; l’issue non nomina file o test.