I was again away from the HQ for most of the week and today when I came back from the Merito Forum seminar, Pekka proudly showed what they had figured out with Joni while I was gone. In short, my first impressions are that this seems like a reasonably clean way of sharing fixtures between JUnit tests.

Ruby on Rails has a similar capability built right into the framework itself. Ok, ok, the Rails stuff is much more powerful than the above static import trick but obviously it would be possible to implement some sort of a YAML-fixtures-in-classpath utility on top of JUnit and Hibernate, for example.