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+# Apache Thrift - integration test suite
+
+This is the cross everything integration test suite for Apache Thrift.
+executed by
+
+    make cross
+
+at the moment, this starts the test.sh script which does the real cross test
+with different transports, protocols and languages.
+
+Unit tests for languages ar usually located under lib/<lang>/test/
+cross language tests acording to [ThriftTest.thrift](ThriftTest.thrift) shall be
+provided for every language including executables with the following command
+line interface for servers:
+
+    $ ./cpp/TestServer -h
+    Allowed options:
+      -h [ --help ]               produce help message
+      --port arg (=9090)          Port number to listen
+      --domain-socket arg         Unix Domain Socket (e.g. /tmp/ThriftTest.thrift)
+      --server-type arg (=simple) type of server, "simple", "thread-pool", 
+                                  "threaded", or "nonblocking"
+      --transport arg (=buffered) transport: buffered, framed, http
+      --protocol arg (=binary)    protocol: binary, compact, json
+      --ssl                       Encrypted Transport using SSL
+      --processor-events          processor-events
+      -n [ --workers ] arg (=4)   Number of thread pools workers. Only valid for 
+                              thread-pool server type
+
+and this for clients:
+
+    $ ./cpp/TestClient -h
+    Allowed options:
+      -h [ --help ]               produce help message
+      --host arg (=localhost)     Host to connect
+      --port arg (=9090)          Port number to connect
+      --domain-socket arg         Domain Socket (e.g. /tmp/ThriftTest.thrift), 
+                                  instead of host and port
+      --transport arg (=buffered) Transport: buffered, framed, http, evhttp
+      --protocol arg (=binary)    Protocol: binary, compact, json
+      --ssl                       Encrypted Transport using SSL
+      -n [ --testloops ] arg (=1) Number of Tests
+
+If you have executed the **make check** or **make cross** then you will be able to browse
+[gen-html/ThriftTest.html](gen-html/ThriftTest.html) with the test documentation.
+
+## SSL
+Test Keys and Certificates are provided in multiple formats under the following
+directory
+
+    test/keys
+